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Days of Being Wild (re-release)
  • Studio: Rim
  • Release Date: Nov 19, 2004
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Metascore
96 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 14 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 39 Ratings

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  • Summary: 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 (1991) tracks a half dozen characters through their individual searches for intimate connection. (Kino International)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Carla Meyer
    100
    Superb.
  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    It's inexplicable that Wong's early masterpiece has been virtually absent from American screens since he completed it in 1991.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    100
    Sometimes cinema's highest achievements become clear only in retrospect. Days of Being Wild--now clearly revealed as one of the peaks of Hong Kong filmmaking and a masterwork of contemporary cinema giant Wong.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 3 out of 17
  1. TNgo
    10
    Just wonderful! I especially loved its meditation on time.
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  2. RG
    10
    one of the best movies i have ever seen and he keeps getting better with each i m not sure how that is possible every second of thsis movie is dripped in dealing with time and mix of emotions.… Expand
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  3. BrianM
    10
    This and 2046 speak very loudly to a certain group of people. If you haven't been there, I wouldn't expect you to understand. To those it have, it's powerful stuff.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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