Critic Reviews
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Christian Science Monitor
It's inexplicable that Wong's early masterpiece has been virtually absent from American screens since he completed it in 1991.
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The New York Times
As he (Wong Kar-wai) floods the screen with beauty and fills the soundtrack with hypnotic rhythms, he forges a filmmaking style of incomparable eroticism.
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Chicago Tribune
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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Chicago Reader
Wong Kar-wai's idiosyncratic style first became apparent in this gorgeously moody second feature.
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Washington Post
Its themes of passion, heartbreak and the inexorable passage of time are eternal.
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Boston Globe
Days of Being Wild shows Wong discovering his own cinematic language, and he's as astonished as we are.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Superb.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
It is a work of great beauty that rewards continued visits.
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LA Weekly
Kim Morgan
Like Proust's madeleine unleashing a flood of reminiscences in the narrator of his novel, Wong works the elements of his aesthetic — music, beautiful people and emotion — into a mood that so overtakes you it's nearly impossible to emerge from his films without feeling slightly drunk.
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Los Angeles Times
Director Wong is at his best in this rerelease of the 1991 film.
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Austin Chronicle
Joey O'Bryan
All those seriously interested in foreign cinema are encouraged to take a look at this atmospheric drama -- sure to be remembered as one of the key achievements of the Hong Kong cinema in the 1990s.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Doyle's handheld camerawork is intimate and curious and his hazy colors radiate off the screen.
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Village Voice
Revived (with vastly improved subtitles) some 14 years after it first stunned Hong Kong critics, Days of Being Wild is a sort of meta-reverie populated by a cast of beautiful young pop icons.
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TV Guide
Staff (Not credited)
After years of work-for-hire, writer-director Wong Kar-wai found his creative voice, discovered his themes and styles, and solidified his collaborative creative team with this brilliant examination of one-way love and crashed relationships. (Review of Original Release)
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