Friday, Jan. 23, 2009

Ashes of Time Redux

A moony postromantic, Hong Kong's Wong Kar-wai makes films trapped in a web of lost love. This recut of his 1994 Eastern western is a heartbreaking rhapsody with an iconic cast: Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Maggie Cheung. Unmissable.