The Film Society of Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plz
212.875.5600
This event has passed.
- When
-
Thursday Feb 5, 2009 (7:30pm)
- Where
-
- Price
-
$25
- Links
Note:
A special guest introduces the screening, and a party with an open bar and hors d'oeuvres follows the event.
Mention Wong Kar-Wai and an image materializes: a lone figure sashaying, in slow motion, to a ravishing melody. As with any auteur worth his ink, Wong's trademark obsessions, like his swooned-over slowdowns, were already coming to light in his irresistible second feature, Days of Being Wild — the elusiveness of happiness, ticking clocks, and the Hong Kong of his youth. Invoking the Chinese title for Rebel Without a Cause, the film follows a slick playboy (Leslie Cheung) who approaches his life — whether the mistreatment of lovers Maggie Cheung and Carina Lau or the search for his mother — with a come-what-may outlook. For his first Wong effort, Christopher Doyle captures these children of Mao and Coca-Cola in all their reckless, romantic beauty.
