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01/26/06
Days of Being Wild (1990)
90 %
Reviews Counted: 29 Fresh: 26 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.7/10
Runtime: 89 mins
Synopsis: DAYS OF BEING WILD is the film that started it all for auteur art film director Wong Kar Wai, exhibiting many of the preoccupations and devices that would characterize his work throughout his career until the present time. The precise, almost melodic slowness of the pacing is reflective of the... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Alex Man
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
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11/11/03
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Twelve years after first seeing Days of Being Wild, I’m finally developing some fondness for it.
07/31/05
The ‘60s were a time of alienation and sadness, which I suppose Wong was trying to reflect here. But he’s chosen characters so monumentally self-destructive that it’s difficult to care about them.
03/12/05
Wong has a reputation for slow-moving mood pieces in which very little happens, but that's not the case here.
03/03/05
Wong's always-striking visual style uses floating, neon colors and extreme angles to emphasize disconnected souls.
02/28/05
Needless to say a must-see for Wongcolytes, Days of Being Wild is also an excellent entry point for people who haven't yet caught this most exotic and habit-forming of cinematic bugs.
02/25/05
Every shot is perfectly composed and compelling, with light and shadow manipulated to maximum effect.
02/25/05
It now seems like a promising apprentice work, almost a blueprint for the writer-director's most acclaimed and famous film, In the Mood for Love.
02/18/05
There are images in Days that can make your heart stop for no other reason than that they're perfect.
02/18/05
The languorous atmosphere of longing, disconnection and emotional isolation is hypnotic.
02/17/05
It may have been released in the olden days of 1991, but Wong Kar-Wai's Days of Being Wild remains pulsatingly contemporary.
02/03/05
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01/25/05
Feels exciting, in part, because you are watching an auteur lay the groundwork -- with an assortment of clocks, watches and meticulously detailed moments -- for ideas and moods he will obsessively follow in later films.
01/06/05
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