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Days of Being Wild |
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 Release Date: 03/13/91 (Future Release)
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Rebecca Pan
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Rating: (NR) |
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NEW YORK REVIEW
Painfully beautiful, Wong Kar-Wai’s
1991 film, his second feature, is set in more-than-picture-perfect 1960 Hong Kong, a supersaturated composition of pomaded hair and green-glass Coca-Cola bottles, rattling trains and drizzling rain. A brooding, manipulative playboy (Leslie Cheung) seduces a soda jerk (Maggie Cheung) and then a bar girl (Carina Lau), before he runs away—in the first of many breathtaking collaborations between Wong and cinematographer Christopher Doyle (who worked together on Chungking Express, Happy Together, and In the Mood for Love, among others). The visuals are so patently gorgeous that they’re dangerous: Screened at Film Forum in a new 35-millimeter print, it would be easy to let the confident direction and lush soundtrack lull you into a kind of trance state, except that, as in most of Wong’s films, there’s a barely repressed brutality that erupts and breaks in waves—an ability to shift moods and tenor that may be his most stunning accomplishment. This is, after all, just his second film, and the script sometimes stumbles into forced metaphor: “I’ve heard there’s a kind of bird with no legs,” Leslie Cheung says. “All it can do is fly and fly.” But even this is one of the film’s most memorable transitions: Exhausted, Cheung rouses himself from his bed, cigarette fuming, and stares, exhausted, in the mirror—then dances, across the room, all alone. — Reviewed by Logan Hill, New York Magazine
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