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	2046 (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival with the film reels arriving straight from the laboratory, causing a delay in the festival schedule.
		The rooms 2046 and 2047 are connected by a common hallway, and symbolic of his desire to return to the past, Chow regularly watches and gets involved with the people that move into 2046.
		While it is never explicitly stated in the film, it is implied that she is a nightclub girl that occasionally doubles as a high-class prostitute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2046_(film) (4810 words)

	Zhang Ziyi CSC: 2046: Review 1
		The name 2046 however, is also used by Mr Chow as the title of one his stories set in the future which is actually based around his own romantic experiences.
		Her character is well-developed during the film, to the point that the viewer will feel sorry for her, and in some instances be able to relate to what she's going through.
		I'm not sure if 2046 is actually a flawed film, or whether its me who is the flawed one, or whether 2046 is a true work of genius.
	csc.ziyi.org /filmography/2046/review01.html (792 words)

	Film/Classic: 2046 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| 2046
		His sensationally lush and languorous new film, 2046, is clearly an extension of this drama, unfolding on a canvas of sometimes almost glutinous richness - part sequel, part variation on a theme - with a startling narrative like something by Dennis Potter.
		Chow's emotional life is displaced into a sci-fi novel he is writing called 2046, a Kubrickian fantasy of a hi-tech global train network with a service called 2046 in which people can reclaim their memories.
		In watching the film we are marooned in a virtual "present" time of exquisite unhappiness.
	film.guardian.co.uk /cannes2004/story/0,14498,1221756,00.html (330 words)

	2046 review - movie review of the Wong Kar-Wai film starring Tony Leung
		2046 opens on an astonishing, digital sequence in the universe of the filmmaker: a mysterious train takes along travelers in search of their lost memories in 2046, a space/time from which no one returns.
		2046 is a film about solitude and absence, topics that cross, like nebula, in the filmmaker's work.
		Perhaps 2046 for the title is good; it's also a hotel room or maybe this is this secret stored in the side of a Cambodian mountain, an episode that intervenes in the epilogue of In the Mood for Love and is told by the hero himself.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/2046.html (618 words)

	2046 (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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).
		It seems, after seeing the film, that he was correct; I had seen half of In the Mood for Love a while back, and I did get an idea of what I might expect, but the fact is is that 2046 really does work fine as a film on its own terms.
		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.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0212712 (912 words)

	2046: A Matter of Time, A Labour of Love
		It was also the film that achieved for Wong a critical breakthrough, and the one in which he began his other obsession: a nostalgic remembrance of the 1960s.
		In fact, given that the film is the summing up of the 1960s trilogy, the first episode of which was completed in 1990, the quantity of time in which the project had gestated in Wong's mind is probably much longer than the touted five years that Wong took to make the film.
		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.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/35/2046.html (2132 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.
		Like in nearly every Wong Kar-Wai film ever made, the existence of memory proves paralyzing and harmful to his characters, and their ability to adapt or not is ultimately where their journey lies.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews_2/2046.htm (1975 words)

	2046 (2005): Reviews
		The film is, in fact, an encyclopedia of beauty -- the beauty of desire, the beauty of nostalgia, the beauty of music and clothing and smoke and pain, and, chiefly, the beauty of women.
		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.
		The film is the work of a visual genius who may have overextended his storytelling ability, but with fascinating results.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/2046 (1432 words)

	Movie Review - 2046 - eFilmCritic
		Though 2046 is a sequel to In the Mood for Love, one needn't see the prior film in order to enjoy this one.
		Between tenants, 2046 is occupied by the landlord's daughter, Jing Wen (Faye Wong), where she can secretly read her pulp novels, along with the letters from the Japanese boyfriend (Takuya Kimura) that her father forbids her to see.
		In this story, there are trains from the present to 2046, which is so peaceful and perfect that no-one, save the narrator of the tale, has ever returned.
	www.efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=10337&reviewer=371 (1152 words)

	Soaring To New Heights of 2046 the Hong Kong movie
		Nevertheless, Wong's films are highly regarded by a small group of Thai ''artcore'' moviegoers and praised by international critics.
		Bird is being paid Bt2 million for his part in ''2046'', which co-stars Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Faye Wong, Carina Lau and hot Japanese singer ''Smap'' Takuya Kimura, and the film will have a world premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2000.
		Filming began last Monday (Sept 6) and it is believed that locations will be used in 10 countries, but with no finished script and the shooting schedule being kept secret, anything may -- and probably will -- happen.
	www.geocities.com /bbee_bird/2046.html (1074 words)

	Cinemarati Blog » Top 20 Films of 2005: #5 2046 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		And like that memory — rapturous, painful, unreliable, and ineradicable — the film lingers indelibly in one’s consciousness, less through words than through images that practically sear themselves on to the screen — from a single plume of cigarette smoke curling languorously through the air to the glassy-eyed beauty of an android embracing nothingness.
		Formally, 2046 is a bit of a mess, but such a hypnotically gorgeous mess it seems only fitting as a reflection of the wreckage of love.
		After viewing the film a second time, I really began to admire the performances, particularly of the actresses (and what a great cast of actresses it is).
	www.cinemarati.org /index.php/archives/top-20-films-of-2005-5-2046 (1529 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - 2046 (2005), Wong Kar-wai, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, dvd review
		In the Mood for Love (2001), the events in 2046 could be taking place at the same time in the same building, but the new film exists on its own plane.
		Since her room is as yet unavailable, he checks into 2047 and proceeds to have a series of encounters and relationships with the several women who move in next door, to 2046.
		2046 is a culmination and an expansion of everything he has done before, all of the lost loves and missed connections, crammed and scattered into one gorgeously detailed, richly textured film.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /2005/2046.shtml (896 words)

	2046 film review
		The celebrated Hong Kong director hasn't made a film since 2000's arthouse smash In The Mood For Love, and he only let the Cannes Film Festival have his latest piece hours before it was scheduled to screen.
		2046 is a cinematic poem on the subject, full of often surreal flights of fancy.
		Chow's writing is the other lynchpin of the film, as he progresses on a novel called 2046.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/2046.html (613 words)

	2046 - MonkeyPeaches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Room 2046 was filled with memory of the days he had with Su Li-Zhen, and trace of the good time Lu Lu spent with her boyfriend CC (Chang Chen).
		In the story, a train departed for 2046 and people boarded the train would recover their lost memories.
		This is the plot description, originally written in Chinese, is released by Shanghai Film Studios, which co-produced the film.
	www.monkeypeaches.com /2046.html (873 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| 2046
		Now comes 2046 (2004), four years in the making, three cinematographers, at least one of the stars (Maggie Cheung) reduced to two very brief shots, and by all accounts a lot of chops and changes in conception, dominant theme, and emphasis along the way.
		Characteristically for Wong, the film’s major theme is spelt out quite explicitly late in the film in one of Chow’s voice-overs: “Love is all a matter of timing,” he says.
		This weeping is then rhymed with the final scenes with Bai Ling (in the 1970 “present”, which date, in keeping with the film’s and Wong’s romantic/nostalgic fascination with the sixties, is never explicitly named), which end with a complete breakdown into tears, from which, for once, we never see her bravely recover.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /47/2046.htm (1551 words)

	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 (904 words)

	Film Highlight: 2046
		Which is usually concluded in most films with one last attempt, and always successful at that, of the characters trying to reunite for good.
		In the Mood for Love was simply about unrequited love, a love that was never meant to blossom in the sun as both individuals spent the majority of the film cowering around with their heads low instead of really taking a chance at this opportunity presented in front of them.
		Personally, this is the most awaited film of the summer for me as I've grown to love his previous film intensely and can see no wrong in Wong Kar Wai's upcoming approach at re-introduce his character.
	journals.aol.com /vulgarmessiah/FilmFocus/entries/2005/07/02/.../1045 (484 words)

	2046 - Film247.net - Wong Kar-Wai, film review, movie reviews,
		The concept of the plot is a fascinating one, bursting with original and beautifully shot moments that stand out like a 3-D picture; Chow’s conversation with one of the droids in the year 2046 is a good example of many.
		The film is also longer than it necessarily had to be; twists and turns are dragged out and every corner of the story is explored.
		2046 is not a bad attempt but it is long and drawn out with too much content to get to grips with.
	www.film247.net /film/2046.php (216 words)

	Amazon.com: 2046: DVD: Tony Leung Chiu Wai,Faye Wong,Ziyi Zhang,Chen Chang,Maggie Cheung,Jie Dong,Li Gong,Takuya ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Now, when he was making films like "Chungking Express", which is a film purely for film lovers, he alienated the mainstream while hitting chords with the cine-literate folk who had not had their pretentiousness fed in such ways since the heights of Godard.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /2046-Tony-Leung-Chiu-Wai/dp/B000BRBA8S (3701 words)

	BigO Worldwide
		It's a strange film, and stranger still is that many of the complaints critics leveled against "2046" I thought applied as well if not better to "Mood:" an emphasis on texture and atmosphere over actual plot, a dwelling on pose and beauty instead of honest characterization.
		Wong lets the film speak out loud on their passion in their stead, through the use of seductive camera movements and ravishingly bright colors (thanks to Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, who often shoots for Hou Hsiao Hsien).
		With "2046," the seductive moves and ravishing colors are gone (and somewhat missed); instead, we return to Doyle's traditional handheld camerawork (an identifying quality of almost all of Wong's previous pictures), recording not the emotional stasis of the previous film, but frenetic, purposeless activity covering up the hollowness within.
	www.bigozine2.com /movies06/NV2046.html (322 words)

	In the Mood for Rapture - TIME Asia Magazine, May. 31, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		2046 is a sequel of sorts to Wong's In the Mood for Love, which premiered at Cannes in 2000 and enjoyed worldwide acclaim.
		The new film follows Chow's erotic adventures for the next decade or so, mainly with the alluring Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi), and occasionally dips into the past, in reveries of Lulu the vamp (Carina Lau) and the tragic-masked Su Lizhen (Gong Li).
		Wong's films are a snap to decode for anyone familiar with the tropes of classic movie romance.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501040531-641205,00.html (975 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		Wong’s film soundtracks have always been diverse and eclectic (take, as random examples, the motley collection of tango music, symphonic main tracks and operatic arias in Mood, or the samba-tango-’50s oldies compilation in Happy Together) and 2046 is no different.
		The result is a strange sense of alienation, an ambience of the unheimlich, a cinematic evocation of reminiscence: in a film about remembering, this is surely the sound (and sensation) of memory on film—a slow-dance between familiar and unfamiliar, known and unknown.
		Enmeshed in reminiscence, the mystery surrounding “2046” becomes, instead, the triumph of the film, for memories do not have the logic of the event; they are only reflections in a mind stricken with nostalgia and loss.
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue12/2046.html (552 words)

	2046
		The film is a beautiful reverie, a kind of poem about lovers briefly glimpsed and never forgotten.
		I suspect promises made to the several prominent actors and pop stars who appear in the film are what kept Wong Kar-Wai from releasing the film he clearly could have.
		What we seem to have here in 2046 is a meditation on past loves, not to mention missed communication, bad love affairs, bad timing, roads not taken and the passage of time itself.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/2046 (1027 words)

	2046 : film review
		It was a wonderfully shot film, starring one of the screen's most breathtaking couples, featuring a perfect and complimentary soundtrack that pulls you along with the story's emotional sway.
		Stylistically the film is all Wong Kar Wei.
		In the meantime, using a voiceover, Chow pours his life into the parallel world of 2046 the novel, where once in a while, a mysterious train leaves for the year 2046, and no-one ever comes back.
	www.musicomh.com /films2/2046.htm (606 words)

	Cannes Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Wong Kar-wai on the beginnings of 2046: “When I began to think about the film four years ago it was linked to the situation of Hong Kong and effects of the return to China.
		The film is about a person who wants to change and about promises.
		The first Festival prizes were announced at the end of the day, the awards to the Cinefondation film student participants.
	www.festival-cannes.fr /films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4202747 (883 words)

	2046: A Film Odyssey - TIME Asia Magazine, Oct. 04, 2004
		Like that film and most of the others that have made him the most respected and imitated writer-director in Hong Kong, perhaps in all Asia, it is a stethoscope monitoring the troubled hearts of people who have the attitude but not always the aptitude for love.
		"If that's the case, my films are 75% romantic; the other 25% is the realities, the problem solving and luck." As for himself, he laughs and says he's "60% romantic." Which sounds like the other 40% is talking.
		The film missed a scheduled screening and had to be shown later that night.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501041004-702196,00.html (897 words)

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