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82
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45
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28
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22
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2046
Sony Pictures Classics
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexual content
Starring
Tony Leung Chiu Wai,
Li Gong,
Takuya Kimura,
Faye Wong,
Ziyi Zhang,
Carina Lau,
Chen Chang,
and
Wang Sum
Picking up where "In the Mood for Love" left off, 2046 is a visually seductive reverie of memory and regret, refracted through a serial womanizer's experiences with six women. (Sony Pictures Classics)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Foreign
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Romance
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Sci-fi
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Wong Kar-Wai
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Wong Kar-Wai
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 27, 2005
Theatrical: August 5, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
129 minutes, B/W / Color |
| ORIGIN: |
China / France / Germany / Hong Kong |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Cantonese / Japanese / Mandarin (with English subtitles) |
Nominated, Golden Palm, 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design and Make-Up, Best Original Film Score, 2005 Hong Kong Film Awards

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Filmed to perfection by the great Christopher Doyle and others.

100
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Like Hitchcock, Mr. Wong is at once a voyeur and fetishist par excellence.

100
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
I'm glad that 2046 is different from "Mood" even while being strangely of a piece with it. Like "Mood," it’s a movie of utter wonder and ravishment. But the key here is different.

100
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The new film lives up to expectations and, indeed, pushes past them into virtually unmapped territory.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
A rare, sumptuous movie treat.

100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The result is rich, lush -- simply exquisite.

100
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
A riot of sight and sound that, however baffling, has an irresistible, elemental pull.

91
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
One of those undeniably beautiful things. The film is, in fact, an encyclopedia of beauty -- the beauty of desire, the beauty of nostalgia, the beauty of music and clothing and smoke and pain, and, chiefly, the beauty of women.

91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
There are many places a visitor may go astray in 2046 -- places where the filmmaker appears to be a bit at loose ends too. Still, Wong's invitation -- ''Let's get lost'' -- is irresistible.

90
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Mood is everything, trumped up by a score so rich with pop songs, bossa nova drama, and symphonic mournfulness it's almost a movie on its own. 2046 may be a Chinese box of style geysers and earnest meta-irony, but that should not suggest there aren't bleeding humans at the center of it.

90
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Wong brilliantly blends musical styles and eras to create an intoxicating mood.

90
Dallas Observer
Jean Oppenheimer
It's the best thing Wong has done in years--perhaps ever.

90
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
You may feel lost or bewildered at times in 2046 (and I certainly did), and you may feel that Chow is suffering from self-inflicted wounds. But every new adventure with every new girl vibrates with possibility, and the filmmaking is so stunning that you may not care that this is less a movie with a plot and characters than a hermetically sealed universe of romantic regret.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
iIt's a film for art- and foreign-movie devotees. But it's also a movie for audiences who simply want to get turned on.

88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
2046 is a bit overlong and not for all tastes, but fans of "In the Mood for Love" will relish this second helping, which is more emotionally substantial than the first.

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
In this gorgeously melancholic fresco of love affairs, Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a womanizing pulp-fiction writer in '60s Hong Kong.

80
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
An intoxicatingly beautiful, maddeningly elliptical and utterly enthralling meditation on the fleeting pleasures and haunting aftermath of doomed romance.

80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Just as memorable and emotionally intense as any of Wong's films. It's a mood as much as a movie.

80
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The result is a film chilly and externalized in all the ways that Mood was bottled up and woozily dreamlike.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Only a master director could make such a beautifully flawed film.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
This long, gorgeous, occasionally maddening movie is the work of a hopeless romantic who knows there is no pain as bittersweet -- or as haunting -- as the pain of a broken heart.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Nat King Cole croons a Christmas chestnut, an opera wafts into the ether, Latin jazz sways. It's all terribly atmospheric, and if you're in the mood for atmosphere, 2046 delivers.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Wong uses his brief evocations of the future mainly as a way of poetically lamenting the past.

70
Time
Richard Corliss
Even if a Chinese movie doesn't sound like your idea of summer fun, give 2046 a chance. Its pearly artistry and gorgeous faces should put you quickly, deeply, in the mood for love.

67
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The film is the work of a visual genius who may have overextended his storytelling ability, but with fascinating results.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Since it is by Wong Kar Wai, 2046 is visually stunning. He uses three cinematographers but one style, that tries to evoke mood more than meaning. The movie as a whole, unfortunately, never seems sure of itself. It's like a sketchbook. These are images, tones, dialogue and characters that Wong is sure of, and he practices them, but he does not seem very sure why he is making the movie, or where it should end.

63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Like Wong's past films, 2046 is lovely to behold, elegantly moody and rich in atmospherics. And the women caught in Chow's web are extraordinary beauties.

60
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This, too, is a mood piece, sometimes surreal and dominated by Chow's lovelorn sadness. But it's hard to find an emotional or narrative handle to hang on to, since the filmmaker keeps reaching for dramatic energy that keeps eluding him.
60
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
As for the title, well, it made me think of Thomas Carlyle's wife, who read Browning's long poem "Sordello," enjoyed it, but still couldn't work out whether Sordello was a man, a city, or a book. So it is with 2046. A place? A date? A hotel room? A bar tab? You tell me.

60
Film Threat
Jeremy Mathews
The fascinating visuals and performances by Leung and the assortment of actresses like Gong, Zhang Ziyi and Maggie Cheung ensure that the film is still worth watching.

60
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The story is multiplex and unclear.

50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It takes what could be called the Chinese equivalent of chutzpah to make a movie with three of the world's most beautiful and talented women -- Gong Li, Maggie Cheung and Zhang Ziyi -- and to be more interested in the male character.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Even the art house crowd will find the film off-putting not only because of its vagueness but because of its thoroughly unlikable characters.

50
Variety
Derek Elley
The overall effect simply underlines the central weakness of the pic: that the neo-kitschy futuristic scenes don't add much to the real-life '60s relationships.


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