Before The Grandmaster, 2046 e In The Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai was a wonderful film with a well-polished style. Some of our films can be rediscovered in cinemas from December 20.
The stories of Wong Kar-wai's films are seen among others: a poco de violence and a few guns, the traditional tradition of Hong Kong cinema and, sobre allo, mucho amor, passion y arrepentimiento… treacherous, pues, but still saved by humour. As with our past films, Wong Kar-wai's films also have our sonreirs, as in Chungking Express (1994), when the character Takeshi Kaneshiro, aburrido tras haber sido abandonado por su novia, arrogate to llamar una tras otra a todas sus antiguas conquistas con la vana esperanza de contrarar a alguien con quien compartir la che.
Sin embargo, the most recorded of Wong Kar-wai's films is its unique style. Each film has its own firm: it is, by its origin, the planes have a slow camera In The Mood for Love, but I want to rediscover the sequences of the photo to the photo of Chungking Express (2000), los planes gran angular de Fallen Angels (1995) o los pasajes en blanco y negro de Happy Together (1997). What series of a film by Wong Kar-wai without its soundtrack? In the cinema, he enchanted American music and old Wurlizter recordings, which he filmed at the same time.
We listen to Argentine tango in Happy Together o el stándar reggae en Things in Life by Dennis Brown, without olvidar el exito California dreamin ' that the character of Faye Wong was shown and seen in Chungking Express. Faye is a young man of short hair, contemporary and eccentric, a little local, who served as the main inspiration for the character of Amélie Poulain, of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and how we like to compare the similarities. It also has the strong sense of dress and attraction that entrusts the heroes of Wong Kar-wai with an absolute class, and in particular to his favorite actor, Tony Leung, elegant in every circumstance, is a police uniform or nightclub porter in Buenos Aires.
All of these elements, making it easy to reproduce and, a principle of the decade of 2000, many of our cinematographers attempted to imitate the style of Wong Kar-wai, without mentioning the advertising that was inspired by it. It's easy to reduce the cinematography to its aesthetic, but the style of our series is nothing if it doesn't combine with incredible talent for direction, but paradoxically it never fails to elevate cinema to the level of poetry. It is difficult to move when the young person travels at any speed through the Hong Kong Cross-Harbour Tunnel during the night on a motorbike, to the sound of polifónica music from Only You from the Flying Pickets to the finale of Fallen Angels.
This director is a maestro of the poetic art of melancholy, and while we are sobrecoge, all our tastes are sad as in a film by Wong Kar-wai.
Chungking Express, The Fallen Angels, Happy Together & The hand by Wong Kar-wai,
In cinemas from December 20
