It's time to do the 2046

Let us for a moment imagine that a filmmaker allowed us to sleep during the film if we felt we wanted to... and then imagine a film so set in its own temparamental ways, you felt as though it didn't care whether you were watching it or not.. imagine layers of reality and dream-like consciousness and being tricked into believing each layer was another, each reality an imagined one, and then color your imagination with saturated tones of greens, reds and golds. And then add Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li and Tony Leung to these dreams... you have Wong Kar Wai's exquisite 2046 that I, finally, had the pleasure of seeing last night. And will be seeing it again later this week. Faye Wong is a welcome back in WKW's gang after Chungking Express, that other fantastic movie made by WKW (also photographed by Chris Doyle).

Believe it or not, the soundtrack comes close to topping In The Mood For Love, that other beast of a movie these guys made a couple of years ago.. Criterion has it out, and our very own Prof. Gina Marchetti has an essay on the film in the special features section of the DVD... its a good buy basically.

Back to film work while I entertain a friend from Colgate U visiting with another friend from San Francisco (City of my future). Back to floating in Hong Kong's dreams...