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...MOOD FOR ASIA...
...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 made, deeply felt movie. We can only surmise that this Jury was in the mood...
...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...
...rain was heavy, and there wasn't much cover. But despite the gloomy weather, Douglas Paal, head of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the U.S.'s de facto embassy on the island, was in a bright mood. For nearly an hour, Paal had sat and listened to Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian deliver his inauguration address to scores of foreign dignitaries and tens of thousands of his supporters in the square in front of the presidential office in Taipei. During his re-election campaign, Chen had repeatedly stressed Taiwan's separateness from China. While that stance helped...
...otherwise-festive mood of the luncheon was dampened when Spies revealed that he will step down at the end of the year to attend the Boston College School of Business in the fall. Spies’ announcement prompted a standing ovation...