Days of being wild = Ah fei zing zyun

Author

Kar-wai Wong

Call Number

• BLU-RAY FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Blu-ray version.

Languages

In Cantonese, with English subtitles.

Performers

Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Tony Leung.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

The breakthrough sophomore feature by Wong Kar Wai represents the first full flowering of his swooning signature style. The initial entry 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 twenty somethings--including a disaffected playboy searching for his birth mother, a lovelorn woman hopelessly enamored with him, and a policeman caught in the middle of their turbulent relationship--pull together and push apart in a dance 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 Chiu Wai, 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.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.

This disc was released as part of the Criterion Collection box set World of Wong Kar Wai.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Wong Kar Wai ; alternate version of the film.