Stars: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Gong Li, Takuya Kimura, Faye Wong, Ziyi Zhang

Director: Wong Kar-Wai

Summary: Continuing from 'In The Mood For Love', Chow Mo Wan, damaged by his brief affair with Maggie, shuns love for a series of one-night stands. Residing in a cheap hotel, Chow works away on a mysterious science fiction novel in which people travel to the year 2046...

Director Wong Kar-Wai's style reaches its fullest expression in his stunning film 2046. Picture-perfect period sets and costuming, finely wrought atmosphere, languid shots, glamorous cigarette smoke, amber lamplight, and allusions to film noir. 2046 is a meditation on memory, eroticism, love, loss, and longing which surpasses the director's beautiful, widely acclaimed IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) in terms of formal ambition and visual sumptuousness. With its intriguing, layered structure, the film follows the adventures of Chow Wo Man (Tony Leung), a womaniser who is writing a science fiction novel about a future year in which all memories are suspended. The film shuttles between the BLADE RUNNER-like world of Chow's futuristic novel (complete with androids and other metaphors of emotional disconnection) and late-'60s Hong Kong--where Chow writes from a hotel room, and engages in relationships with a series of beautiful, complex women (including the luminous trio of Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, and Faye Wong). The film also journeys to Singapore and through the increasingly mysterious corridors of the protagonist's memory. 2046 resists tidy plot summaries with its disjointed, zigzagging construction. Yet, coupled with Wong's rich cinematography and dazzling formal techniques, it is as fluid, associative, and labyrinthine as memory itself. Sliding between keenly detailed realism (Wong's camera can capture the subtlest flicker of emotion in a characters' eyes) and lavish, expressionistic metaphor, the film is a deeply entrancing experience. Even given its jumbled, sometimes chaotic narrative, 2046 creates a poignant, emotionally charged, and richly rewarding experience.

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Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	Cantonese
Region:	Region 0
Special Features:	UK Exclusive Director Interview, Zhang Ziyi Interview, Zhang Ziyi Behind The Scenes Footage, Casta Diva Music Video, Original Theatrical Trailers
Subtitles:	English
Year:	2004
Release Date:	May 23, 2005
Runtime:	129 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	T V D 3530
Keywords:	Subtitled, General, Wide, Screen, Drama, Cantonese
Genre:	Drama