In his first hypnotic backward glance at Hong Kong in 1960, Wong Kar Wai creates a post-modern LA RONDE set in a fluorescent labyrinth of cool desperation and unfulfilled need. Against the echoing rhythms of period rumbas, DAYS OF BEING WILD tracks a half dozen characters through their individual searches for intimate connection. Collaborating for the first time with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Wong Kar Wai's restless visual imagination decorates this dreamlike fable with characteristic muted extravagance. DAYS OF BEING WILD offers an intoxicating cocktail of lush nostalgia and bitter alienation equaled only by Wong Kar Wai's subsequent films.
Star crossed Asian film icon Leslie Cheung (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE, HAPPY TOGETHER) plays Luddy, a devastatingly handsome Hong Kong lothario who seduces and forsakes women without compunction. Abandoned at birth, Luddy's self-destructive search for love is really a Quixotic quest for a feeling of permanence and a sense of identity. When Luddy beguiles lovely shop girl Su Lizen, he unknowingly sets in motion a sequence of broken hearts and unremembered promises that climaxes in naked obsession, inadvertent self-discovery and shocking violence.
In possibly her most engaging performance, Maggie Cheung (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, AS TEARS GO BY) invests Su Lizen with ethereal beauty and street level vulnerability. With a supporting cast of Hong Kong cinema notables, including Andy Lau (FULLTIME KILLER, AS TEARS GO BY) as Su's policeman confessor, and frequent Wong collaborator Tony Leung (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, HAPPY TOGETHER), DAYS OF BEING WILD's visionary audacity and deep romantic conviction sustains and rewards multiple viewings.
Diese Disc ist Bestandteil der The Wong Kar-Wai Collection, in der 5 Discs enthalten sind:
Titel: | Days Of Being Wild (阿飛正傳) |
Orginal Titel: | 阿飛正傳 (A Fei jing juen) |
Deutscher Titel: | Days Of Being Wild |
Genre: | Drama |
Studio: | Media Asia Films |
Vertrieb: | kino.com |
Land / Jahr: | Hong Kong 1991 |
Altersfreigabe: | Material not rated |
Länge: | 93:58 Minuten |
Regisseur: | Kar-Wai WONG |
Autor: | Kar-Wai WONG |
Produzent: | Rover TANG |
Ausführender Produzent: | Kwong-Wing Alan TANG |
Kamera: | Christopher DOYLE |
Besetzung: | Kwok-Wing Leslie CHEUNG als Yuddy Man Yuk Maggie CHEUNG als Su Lizhen Tak-Wah Andy LAU als Tide Ka-Ling Carina LAU als Leung Fung-Ying Di-Hua Rebecca PAN als Rebecca Hok-Yau Jacky CHEUNG als Zeb Chiu-Wai Tony LEUNG als Smirk Danilo ANTUNES als Rebecca's Lover Hung MEI-MEI als The Amah |
Medium: | DVD |
Region: | Code 1 [USA![]() |
Casetype: | Keep Case (Amaray) |
Disctyp: | DVD 9 |
Bildformat: | 1.85:1 [anamorph] |
Videocodec: | MPEG-2 |
Videodetails: | Resolution: 480i NTSC Color Space: Rec.601 8bit |
Tonformate: | Cantonesisch Dolby Digital Stereo (2.0) [O-Ton] |
Untertitel: | Englisch |
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