Wong Kar-Wai’s loose, “spiritual sequel” to IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE combines that film’s languorous air of romantic longing with a dizzying time-hopping structure and avant-sci-fi twist. Tony Leung Chiu Wai reprises his role as writer Chow Mo-Wan, whose numerous failed relationships with women who drift in and out of his life (and the one who goes in and out of room 2046, down the hall from his apartment) inspire the delirious futuristic love story he pens.

2046’s dazzling fantasy sequences give Wong and two of his key collaborators—cinematographer Christopher Doyle and editor/costume designer/production designer William Chang Suk Ping—license to let their imaginations run wild, propelling the sumptuous visuals and operatic emotions skyward toward the sublime. With Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Gong Li, Carina Lau, Maggie Cheung, Chang Chen.

“Quite simply an incomparably sublime work of art, a triumph of lyricism over narrative in the cinema, and the most exquisite homage to the beauty of women it has ever been my privilege to witness on the screen.” (Observer)

“A languid, shimmering mood piece from a master stylist, with some of Asia’s finest actors at their peak.” (Empire Magazine)

“As memorable and emotionally intense as any of Wong’s films. It’s a mood as much as a movie.” (AV Club)

Wednesday, January 29
Movie 8:45 pm *Screening as part of a double feature with. Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Tickets HERE

2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004 / 129 mins / 14A / Cantonese with English subtitles) A train in a futuristic landscape takes passengers to a place where they can recapture their memories, a place from which no one has ever returned. This is the premise of a novel by the womanizing sci-fi writer Chow, who engages in passionate affairs with a series of intriguing women he meets at the Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong. As Chow’s lovers offer him inspiration for his writing, reality blends with fiction, and the past commingles with the future.

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