Excerpt from Hollywood.com

Wong Kar-wai is a rare commodity within the Hong Kong film industry: a maker of "art" films. Moreover, he makes these films with studio backing and all-star casts and some of these projects have even made money. In an entertainment arena dominated by over-the-top actioners, florid melodramas and broad comedies, this is no small achievement. For Wong, genre has merely provided a template through which he works out his ongoing thematic preoccupations such as the transitory nature of experience, the importance of memory, the influence of pop culture and the lasting sting of rejection. His bold stylistic signature--slow motion action scenes blurred and pixilated by step-printing; huge, distorting close-ups and compacted fight sequences shot from disorienting angles--has tended to overwhelm most conventional generic concerns.

Beloved by critics and the HK acting elite, Wong's films have won him favorable comparisons to master experimentalists Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais in their heyday. READ MORE