2046
2046 is our Closing Night feature and will be followed by drinks at the home of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Hindley St, to toast the end of the 2005 Adelaide Fiml Festival.
Wong Kar-wai's lavish new film has all the hallmarks of his style: melancholic voiceover, lushly romantic ruminations on the failure to love, and the remarkable cinematography of Christopher Doyle with its gorgeous shallow focus, striking composition, and grainy optical printing. The reshooting for which Wong is famous results in a dispersed narrative that is both strongly controlled and yet willfully responsive to the last wild idea which came into its creator's head. It leaps forward to an improbable sci-future and then backward to Wong's familiar take on sixties Hong Kong – all cheongsams, fluttering cigarette smoke and Nat King Cole. Tony Leung plays novelist Mo Wan, whose dalliances with the likes of Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Maggie Cheung (in a cameo) are a set of meditations on the options left when love slips through your fingers for the last time, when it is already too late to do any more than grasp at happiness.
Supported by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office
Reviews
“An absorbingly mysterious, richly sensuous film.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“Because of its passion, its craft, its belief in the grace and pain of love, 2046 is the film of 2004.”
Richard Corliss, Time Asia Magazine
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When
8:00 PM Thursday, 3 March
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Greater Union - Cinema 5
Ticket includes film, party entry, a complimentary glass of champagne and nibbles
Ticket Price
$20 - Ticket includes film, party entry, a complimentary glass of champagne and nibbles
As Part Of
Closing NightHong Kong
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About 2046
120 minutes35mm
2.35:1
Dolby Digital SRD
In Cantonese/Mandarin/Japanese with English subtitles
Print Source
Hopscotch
Troy Lum
troy@hopscotchfilms.com.au
Awards
FIPRESCI Prize Valladolid 2004Festivals
Cannes 2004Pusan 2004
London 2004
Tokyo 2004
Taipei 2004
About the Director
Wong Kar-wai
Wong Kar-wai is recognised worldwide as one of the most innovative and romantic filmmakers working in cinema today. Born in Shanghai in 1954, Wong moved to Hong Kong at age 5 and worked in television until making his feature debut As Tears Go By in 1988. Since then he has delivered a succession of films which meditate on loneliness, time, human communication and loss with a distinctive, opulent visual style, in close collaboration with production/costume designer and editor William Chang and Australian-born cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
Filmography
2046 (2004)In the Mood for Love (2000)
Happy Together (1997)
Fallen Angels (1995)
Ashes of Time (1994)
Chungking Express (1994)
Days of Being Wild (1991)
As Tears Go By (1988)
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