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	village voice > film > 2046 by Michael Atkinson
		2046 retains fragments of virtually everything its creator had ever thought it might be, making it less a "project" than an organic coalescence of the artist as a not-so-young melancholic.
		2046 is all texture, a conquest of formal content over content-oppressed form, where the camera is in a perpetual state of inquiry, reframing the environment and its characters as a sort of methodological humility, and where visual and aural pathways boomerang down hallways, around corners, over rooftops.
		2046 may be a Chinese box of style geysers and earnest meta-irony, but that should not suggest there aren't bleeding humans at the center of it: Gong, Zhang, and Wong (with her plate-sized eyes wandering astray) all deliver masterfully detailed portraits of women ensnared in romantic impossibility.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0531,atkinson1,66460,20.html (744 words)

	Film/Classic: 2046 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		2046 is the number of a hotel room in "In the Mood for Love" and "2046" and in the latter it is also the name of a destination where people go for their memories and never return.
		In his fine review of "2046," Roger Ebert notes that "It is always too early or too late for love in a Wong Kar Wai film, and his characters spend their days in yearnings and regrets." Astute, but not entirely accurate as much of the film dwells on seduction and love-making.
		"2046" is sumptuous and surprising and provocative and may not enthrall all viewers, but it is an extremely impressive and intriguing work of a master.
	www.thecityreview.com /2046.html (689 words)

	Slashed Seat Affairs: 2046
		In the Mood for Love, 2046 is sort of a sum of Wong Kar Wai's film-making aesthetic and a little push forward at the same time.
		But the music in 2046 is different, and certainly much different than In the Mood for Love, with its endlessly repeating melancholy-soaked strings.
		2046 presents this sadness and melancholy with the elegance it deserves.
	www.modernpeapod.com /slashedseataffairs/2005/10/2046.html (716 words)

	Thoughts on Stuff: Going to 2046
		My favorite part of this story was when Faye decides to go to Japan in the present, so Tony tries to write a happy ending, in which the robot would presumably meet up with the person that she loved in the past, however, she just rides on the train, in a never changing state.
		2046 is the hotel room where he and Maggie wrote their martial arts serials in ITMFL, and it's the place where the happiest time of his life occurred.
		2046 is the last year before change, and he's in 2047, it's impossible to get back to where he was.
	thoughtsonstuff.blogspot.com /2005/01/going-to-2046.html (1838 words)

	2046 (2005)
		2046 is also the year in which Hong Kong's pact with China, which allows it to remain largely autonomous of the mainland government, expires.
		And 2046 is Wong's semi-sequel to In the Mood for Love, more dream than drama, a languid and sometimes frustrating evocation of love and regret, and the most purely romantic film of this or most years.
		But it is not his fictional self that is stranded in 2046, but the writer himself who is kept captive by his lost memories, so much so that he cannot quite connect emotionally with the women in his present.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=140905&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (663 words)

	2046 (2005): Reviews
		2046 may be a Chinese box of style geysers and earnest meta-irony, but that should not suggest there aren't bleeding humans at the center of it.
		2046 is a bit overlong and not for all tastes, but fans of "In the Mood for Love" will relish this second helping, which is more emotionally substantial than the first.
		2046 can be viewed similarly to Adaptation, of the constant struggle between life and art, one imitating (or inspiring?) the other.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/2046 (1416 words)

	"2046" - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As luscious and absorbing as "2046" is, I sometimes had the feeling that Wong had made it by allowing the theme and atmosphere of "In the Mood for Love" to hang on the vine too long, until they decayed and rotted, started to turn funny colors and give off intoxicating fumes.
		"2046" is a highly original, almost visionary work, whatever its flaws, and should be judged on its own merits.
		She lives in the next room -- in Room 2046, as it happens and theirs is a stormy, steamy affair.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2005/08/05/2046/index_np.html (892 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - 2046
		The first is with Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), a beautiful prostitute living in room 2046 at the Oriental, who is unable to keep her interactions with Chow on a purely professional level.
		Wong establishes the dreamy, disjunctive quality of memory at the outset of 2046 by opening with Chow's recitation of passages from his novel, set to spectacular, hyper-colorful images of his future city, rendered in CGI that is less interested in reproducing reality than in evoking mood.
		This is logical enough when one considers that, for Chow, room 2046 at the South Pacific (and what happened there) represents a powerful convergence of time and place, one from which his old self never escaped.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/2046.php (2344 words)

	2046 (2004)
		2046 is a stunning feast of art house cinema goodness, but given the auteur's towering body of work, it's also a bit of a letdown.
		The revelation of his journey away from the mythical unchanging 2046 is not given away in bold drama or resolute statement of purpose.
		This is likely a reaction to enlarged expectations, and 2046 certainly pumps them up with its pseudo science-fiction interludes (which are intriguing, but not capitalized on), massive cast of "It" names, and allusions to greater historical and cultural significance.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews_2/2046.htm (1975 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: 2046: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But "2046" sees the man who was once the most exciting film-maker in the world stray into David Lynch territory - not in terms of style, but the fact that he has finally fallen into making a pretentious film for pretentious people.
		"2046" carries the familiar meditations on lost love and emotional masochism and detachment that are the staples of all of Wong's previous films, but the deliberately confusing structure make this blend of period drama and surreal sci-fi more frustrating than the joyous puzzles he usually presents.
		I guess 2046 is supposed to be about the importance of memory and purports to a future where humans are whizzing around super fast trains in gleaming cities heading for a place where they can recapture their memories.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007NBJ00 (1928 words)

	Wong Kar Wai's "2046" reviewed by Steve Sailer for The American Conservative; Zhang Ziyi, Tony Leung, Faye ...
		His film "2046," a tone poem about erotic nostalgia, has finally debuted in America more than six years after he began filming with an all-star cast of China's most glamorous leading ladies.
		"2046" can induce the kind of reverie, the art buzz, that few films even attempt these days, but make sure you see it in a theatre with comfy seats.
		"2046" is perhaps most reminiscent of another exile's science fiction novel about a future that evoked his longed-for past, Vladimir Nabokov's Ada.
	www.isteve.com /Film_2046.htm (722 words)

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		The underlying suggestion is that those who remain too long in 2046 transform over time into unresponsive creatures, delayed-response androids impervious to emotions.
		A perpetual red cast colors 2046 with an enveloping warmth far different from the usual descriptions of the futuristic, often reliant upon stark-white or blue-tinged auras to communicate coldness.
		Conjuring numbness but also filled with the heat of consuming passion, 2046 becomes a purgatory for the love-wounded, a place where you arrive either to come to terms with the past or remain eternally trapped unable to progress beyond memories of the long-lost.
	www.reverseshot.com /winter06/yearinreview/5.html (790 words)

	2046 (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Some said you had to see it before 2046, although the general consensus was that the unusual romanticism and little details in both films, and actors like Tony Leung and Maggie Chung, made the only real connection(s) (Wong himself has said ironically to see 2046 before In the Mood for Love).
		But, for the bulk of the film, the film is not set in any kind of futuristic setting that might be assumed on the outset of going into the film.
		Overall, Wong Kar-Wai gives without a shadow of doubt with 2046 that he is a master of compositions, of moods, and of creating characters that are true to themselves, who feel and love but can't seem to reach for it.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0212712 (918 words)

	Chinese Movie Review \| 2046 (2004) Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Ziyi, Faye Wong
		"2046" is, in so many ways, such a Wong Kar-Wai film that you could probably figured out the writer/director was behind it even if you didn't see the credits.
		With able assistance from famed cinematographer Christopher Doyle (who also lensed Fruit Chan's recent "Dumplings"), "2046" features garish neon colors, splendid 1960s wardrobe, and the themes of loneliness, isolation, unrequited love, and a past that refuses to stay in the past.
		In a lot of ways, "2046" represents the entire oeuvre of the director, and would stand very well as a culmination of everything he's done as a filmmaker up to now.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/2046.htm (1062 words)

	2046
		2046 is a film about loneliness, longing, and the futility of escaping from the fetters of past memories.
		2046 is also a room number in a sleazy hotel where protagonist Tony Leung first met Maggie Cheung in their earlier film "In the Mood for Love" (2001).
		Her boyfriend tries to persuade her to leave 2046, but she is unable to express any emotions, and is trapped in this time.
	www.lyen.net /gpage114.html (1460 words)

	MMI Movie Review: 2046
		"2046" is the visually sumptuous, stylized sequel to the ineffable "In the Mood for Love" helmed by writer-director Wong Kar-Wai.
		The dream-like "2046" explores the psychology of a man whose life becomes a reaction to the earlier rejections.
		I asked Leung what he thinks "2046" is about, and he said, "There's no specific direction for the audience to follow, so you better not follow anything; don't force yourself to figure out which direction you should follow, you just feel it.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/2046-jk-182719448.html (540 words)

	DVD Review: 2046
		The year of 2046 refers to the last year before the 50-year period the Chinese Government promised to let Hong Kong remain as it is, an end to the proposed period of stability.
		'2046', individually, is out to own now and available via Amazon UK in the UK and will shortly be available for pre-order in the US via Amazon.
		'2046 and In the Mood For Love' is out to own now and available via Amazon UK in the UK for a limited time only.
	dvd.monstersandcritics.com /reviews/article_8264.php/DVD_Review_2046 (1293 words)

	2046
		It is a story about a mysterious place called 2046, where people go to leave behind their secrets, and end up never returning from.
		The man writes about a Japanese man who is the only person to leave 2046, but that man is actually him, and the story is more about his past than his future.
		"2046 clearly requires multiple viewings, and I’m looking forward to the opportunity to do just that when it is released later this year.
	www.chlotrudis.org /movies/reviews/2005/2046.html (1550 words)

	2046: A Matter of Time, A Labour of Love
		It is essentialist Wong Kar-wai in that the narrative is typically driven by monologues and subjected to the director's customary fragmented, episodic manner of storytelling.
		In 2046, Wong launches straightaway into his futuristic setting (2046 is a place where everybody goes to in order to recover lost memories) and then departs from this sci-fi premise to pick up the thread of Chow Mo-wan's life from where he left off in In the Mood for Love.
		(2046 then becomes a room number in a hotel in Hong Kong where Chow resides and where he carries on several affairs with women.) The film shifts into a Chinese form of melodrama (in Chinese terminology, wenyi pian (3)) that describes a rake's journey into self-discovery.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/35/2046.html (2132 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| 'It was like being in jail'
		After the film's debut in Cannes in May, Edinburgh, with the blessing of UK distributor (and 2046 pre-buyer) Tartan Films, announced that it would be the closing night presentation.
		Still a writer, Chow is in the midst of penning a science-fiction novel set in the year 2046 - hence the title - on a train where people go to recapture their lost memories, but never return.
		The title 2046 is more than a room number or the year in which Chow's sci-fi novel is set.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1309018,00.html (1511 words)

	London Cinema and Movie Guide: Interview with Wong Kar-Wai
		2046 is the last year of this promise and I thought it would be interesting to use these numbers to make a film about promises.
		At first we didn't have this character of the writer in '2046', the original character was a postman.
		In fact, the role in '2046' is extremely hard for her because she doesn't know anything about the ballroom dances in Hong Kong during that period so I had to give her a lot of references.
	www.londonnet.co.uk /ln/out/ent/cinema_wongkarwai.html (1396 words)

	2046 Movie Review - 2046 Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		''2046" takes characters, themes, and even lines of dialogue from those two earlier films and stirs them into a new and mind-altering cocktail; it's not a sequel so much as the third side of a prism through which Wong can shine light on a vibrantly fallen world.
		A cyberpunk landscape of neon, automatons, bullet trains, and ruined piping, 2046 is as much a place and a mindset as it is a year -- a location where the lovelorn can travel to recapture their lost memories.
		Ling is controlling, kittenish, lusty, petulant, and, finally, a harrowing vision of romantic devastation, and the actress somehow makes her all of a piece.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=7963 (941 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison - Wong-kar Wai's 2046 Guang Dong Video - Region 0 - PAL vs. 20th Century Fox (Limited ...
		"2046" is a melancholic and sad history of love and memory, of the time that passes; of the desire to recover time past, to recover lost love.
		When he once more in "2046" comes across a hotel room with the same number he wants to move in, but is given the room number 2047.
		2046 is also the year when Hong Kong will be returned to China, perhaps converting the metropolis into a never-changing, imaginary place in the memory of the Hongkongese part of the population.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDCompare11/2046.htm (1188 words)

	New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's all meant to be slightly confusing yet distinct (just as the title, which should be spoken as four separate numerals), because Wong intends it all to blur into abstraction.
		2046 is not about being swallowed up, but man advancing into the soul of his Ideal.
		On one level, 2046 could be called the greatest date movie of all time.
	www.nypress.com /18/31/film/ArmondWhite.cfm (1042 words)

	2046 Movie page - Zhang Ziyi at HelloZiyi.us
		A series of love stories alternating between this world and his fictional world of 2046 explore the depths of human passion and heartbreak.
		2046: A Film Odyssey - 2046 is the grandest project of a man who, in an age of coarse and facetious movies, has the mission to reestablish the romantic tone of the grandest old films - where two beautiful people would gaze into each other's eyes and go about breaking each other's hearts.
		2046 has one of the best soundtracks of any movie in recent years.
	www.helloziyi.us /Movies/2046.htm (820 words)

	2046 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was his first fling in 2046, and he moves into 2047.
		It is also the title of his novella, which takes place in the year 2046.
		There is almost a feeling of pretentiousness that would be more overt if 2046 were not as beautiful as it was.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/2046.html (599 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - '2046'
		Her room number, 2046, sparks the memory of the room he shared with Su Li Zhen four years earlier, and its totemic power draws him to rent the one next door.
		The story takes place in a Dickian future in which "2046" is a mysterious place where people travel to re-inhabit their memories, where nothing ever changes.
		"2046," like the sequentially numbered story within it, is a lyrical, Proustian meditation on loss, regret, love and time — the marching on of time being the cruelly inexorable constant in both.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/chocano/cl-et-20465aug05,0,4314827.story (661 words)

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