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2046 (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 252 Fresh: 227  Rotten:25 Average Rating: 7.6/10
 
Consensus: Director Wong Kar-Wai has created in 2046 another visually stunning, atmospheric, and melancholy movie about unrequited love and loneliness.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins

Theatrical Release: Aug 5, 2005 Limited

Box Office: $1,237,566

Synopsis: Director Wong Kar-Wai's style reaches its fullest expression in his stunning film 2046. Picture-perfect period sets and costuming, finely wrought atmosphere, languid shots, glamorous cigarette smoke, amber lamplight, and allusions to film noir. 2046 is a meditation on memory,... Director Wong Kar-Wai's style reaches its fullest expression in his stunning film 2046. Picture-perfect period sets and costuming, finely wrought atmosphere, languid shots, glamorous cigarette smoke, amber lamplight, and allusions to film noir. 2046 is a meditation on memory, eroticism, love, loss, and longing which surpasses the director's beautiful, widely acclaimed IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) in terms of formal ambition and visual sumptuousness. With its intriguing, layered structure, the film follows the adventures of Chow Wo Man (Tony Leung), a womanizer who is writing a science fiction novel about a future year in which all memories are suspended. The film shuttles between the BLADE RUNNER-like world of Chow's futuristic novel (complete with androids and other metaphors of emotional disconnection) and late-'60s Hong Kong--where Chow writes from a hotel room, and engages in relationships with a series of beautiful, complex women (including the luminous trio of Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, and Faye Wong). The film also journeys to Singapore and through the increasingly mysterious corridors of the protagonist's memory. 2046 resists tidy plot summaries with its disjointed, zigzagging construction. Yet, coupled with Wong's rich cinematography and dazzling formal techniques, it is as fluid, associative, and labyrinthine as memory itself. Sliding between keenly detailed realism (Wong's camera can capture the subtlest flicker of emotion in a characters' eyes) and lavish, expressionistic metaphor, the film is a deeply entrancing experience. Even given its jumbled, sometimes chaotic narrative, 2046 creates a poignant, emotionally charged, and richly rewarding experience. [More]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: Tony Leung, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Faye Wong, Maggie Cheung

Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Screenwriter: Wong Kar-Wai

DVD Info

Release:

Dec 26, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Anamorphic - 2.40

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - Chinese/Cantonese
  • Subtitles - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Alternate Ending
  • Behind the Scenes - 2046 Featurette
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Interview with - Wong Kar Wai - Director, Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang - Stars
  • Music Videos

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