World of Wong Kar-Wai: Days of Being Wild

Playing in 4k — and on the Somerville's 4k projector — as part of our World of Wong Kar-Wai series!

Wong Kar-Wai’s breakthrough feature represents the first full flowering of his swooning signature style. The first film in a loosely connected, ongoing cycle that includes IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and 2046, this ravishing existential reverie is a dreamlike drift through the Hong Kong of the 1960s in which a band of wayward twentysomethings—including a disaffected playboy (Leslie Cheung) searching for his birth mother, a lovelorn woman (Maggie Cheung) hopelessly enamored with him, and a policeman (Andy Lau) caught in the middle of their turbulent relationship—pull together and push apart in a cycle of frustrated desire. The director’s inaugural collaboration with both cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who lends the film its gorgeously gauzy, hallucinatory texture, and actor Tony Leung, who appears briefly in a tantalizing teaser for a never-realized sequel, Days of Being Wild is an exhilarating first expression of Wong’s trademark themes of time, longing, dislocation, and the restless search for human connection.

You may also like the following events from Independent Film Festival Boston:

• Next Tuesday, 29th July, 07:30 pm, Screening Series: Architecton in Brookline
• Next month, 12th August, 07:30 pm, World of Wong Kar-Wai: As Tears Go By in Somerville
• Next month, 16th August, 08:30 pm, World of Wong Kar-Wai: Chungking Express in Somerville

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