2046
I don't really watch a lot of film, or TV, nor do I know enough about it to do any sort of adequate critique, but I will do my best here.
I recently saw 2046 by Writer/Director Kong Kar-Wai, which is about four years old now. It's a love story that ambles through the city of Shanghai following a couple different intertwined narratives. The story isn't completely self-contained, as 2046 is one of a series, so you have to approach this one differently.
The story can be hard to stay with at times; it's subtitled with sparse dialogue, but what held my attention during the movie and remained with me for a long-time afterwards was the beautiful art direction by Alfred Yau Wai Ming and cinematography by Christopher Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai and Kwan Pun Leung. After watching 2046, I can't help but maintain a small (but uneducated) dissatisfaction with anything else. I wish more films were composed, shot and finished with this much restraint and consideration - artful without being explicitly so - quite a hard thing learned I think.
Format: DVD
Mood: Nostalgic
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