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...except the consolation prize of professional movie people. The Screen International committee of film critics had voted it the best of Cannes - and with good reason. Wong?s film is a cool meditation on, and a warm evocation of, the loves of a man?s life. The man (Leung, playing the same character he did in Wong?s 2000 Cannes prize-winner ?In the Mood for Love?) has a mysterious woman in his past (Gong Li), a flirtatious woman in his present (Zhang) and a robot woman in his future (Faye Wong). There?s no excuse for ignoring this beautifully...
...know, what 2046 makes unavoidably clear, is that Wong Kar-wai is the most romantic filmmaker in the world. In incandescent images of glamorous performers, he details love's anguish and rapture, which are often the same thing. Beautiful women throw themselves at handsome men?Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai?and the men often step aside. Love, the playwright Terry Johnson wrote, is something you fall in. Wong's films make art out of that vertiginous feeling. They soar as their characters plummet...
...sequel of sorts to Wong's In the Mood for Love, which premiered at Cannes in 2000 and enjoyed worldwide acclaim. That movie, set in Hong Kong in 1962, concerned the furtive affair of a married journalist, Chow Mo-wan (Leung), and a married woman (Maggie Cheung) who lives in the same boarding house. The new film follows Chow's erotic adventures for the next decade or so, mainly with the alluring Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi), and occasionally dips into the past, in reveries of Lulu the vamp (Carina Lau) and the tragic-masked Su Lizhen (Gong Li). Chow...
...camera, John Berger once famously said, is a man looking at a woman. Movie romance is certainly a snapshot of a beautiful woman suffering. The main function of Chow?played by Leung as a sensitive gigolo whose smirk can mature into a sigh?is to direct our glance to all the fabulous women in the cast. The camera, mainly manned by Christopher Doyle, prowls around the women like a lover in the first flush of passion. It captures and caresses the actresses' radiance: Lau's bold sensuality, Faye Wong's elfin resiliency, Gong Li's fragile hauteur. Zhang...
GUILTY. Plea entered by JAMES J. SMITH, 60, retired FBI agent, to charges of lying about an affair with Katrina Leung, a suspected double agent; in Washington. Smith, a married counterintelligence official who focused on China, will probably avoid prison time. He has admitted to a 20-year affair with Leung, a married Chinese-American businesswoman and FBI informant. Leung faces five criminal charges that could result in significant prison time. Smith will cooperate in her prosecution...