2046 (2004)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 110
Fresh: 93 | Rotten: 17
Director Wong Kar-Wai has created in 2046 another visually stunning, atmospheric, and melancholy movie about unrequited love and loneliness.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 5
Director Wong Kar-Wai has created in 2046 another visually stunning, atmospheric, and melancholy movie about unrequited love and loneliness.
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Hong Kong-based filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai moves back and forth in time as he reexamines and amplifies the themes from his film In the Mood for Love in this offbeat romantic drama. Opening in the year 2046, in which a man named Tak (Takuya Kimura) attempts to persuades wjw 1967 (Faye Wong) to travel back in time with him, the film soon shifts to the year 1966, in which Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a struggling author, asks the woman he loves, Su Lizhen (Gong Li) to sail with him from Singapore
Cast
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Li Gong
Su Lizhen -
Takuya Kimura
Tak -
Faye Wong
Wang Jingwen/wjw 1967 -
Ziyi Zhang
Bai Ling -
Carina Lau
Lulu/Mimi -
Chen Chang
Mimi cc 1966 -
Wang Sum
Mr. Wang, Train Captain -
Ping Lam Siu
Ping -
Thongchai McIntyre
Bird -
Dong Jie
Wang Jiewen -
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All Critics (110) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (96) | Rotten (18) | DVD (20)
The result is a sumptuous time-teasing story.
Top CriticThe romantic fatalism is so lush that you're invited to get lost in it.
Quite simply an incomparably sublime work of art, a triumph of lyricism over narrative in the cinema, and the most exquisite homage to the beauty of women it has ever been my privilege to witness on the screen.
It may help if you grasp the many allusions to Wong's earlier films (including, notably, Days of Being Wild), but it's far from necessary. This, after all, is undeniably real cinema.
Wong offers an artful meditation on the nature of love, making effective use of color schemes (yellows, greens and reds), placid shotmaking and diverse music to deliver a sultry portrait of postwar Hong Kong.
[Zhang's] identity is so strong that it seems to hold the story together most of the time; it really should have been only about her.
In the mood for sublimity
Seductive and luscious, a cinematic smorgasbord of sensuous delight.
Here, the mystery of the deepest recesses of human emotion are plundered for cinematic play.
A languid, shimmering mood piece from a master stylist, with some of Asia's finest actors at their peak.
A visual feast, and it is very emotionally moving.
Tematicamente óbvio e pouco ambicioso, 2046 é um filme que enche os olhos, mas que não tem muito a oferecer à mente e ao coração.
Stifling, and spreads its minimal plot over too much time.
The fascinating visuals and performances by Leung and the assortment of actresses like Gong, Zhang Ziyi and Maggie Cheung ensure that the film is still worth watching.
Wong Kar-wai confirma, por si hacía falta, que es uno de los cineastas más precisos e integrales de la actualidad.
Wong's film has enough arresting images and intriguing characters that it manages to cast its spell, even though -- like Chow's relationships -- the magic doesn't linger.
"2046" feels like a lot of half-finished ideas all bound together with fancy ribbon.
Audience Reviews for 2046
Super Reviewer
I don't recommend watching this as a stand alone picture as I think one would find it hard to care about Tony Leung's character without knowing what took place in the previous film.
Put 2046 in the end of your Wong Kar Wai marathon. It isn't his best, but is great for fans who want to spent a little more time with a characters they came to love so dearly.
As they say in the film, 2046 is a place to recapture lost memories. Wai eloquently does this in 2046 and makes them feel fresh again.
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- 2046 - Der ultimative Liebesfilm (DE)
