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With precise attention to the physicality of his protagonists and the inanimate objects that become proxies for absent lovers, Wong embeds the erotic power of delayed gratification in every frame. Wong’s films are driven by emotion, with a visual style that reflects his characters’ inner states and the temporal flux that they long to transcend in the search for sublime connection.
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In his distinctly modern synthesis of classic Hollywood, Hong Kong genre, and European art films, Wong combines neo-expressionist cinematography, richly textured production design, and elliptical narrative structures to explore the existential complexities of change, desire, memory, love, friendship, and self-realization. He says that spending “almost every day watching films-French films, Hollywood films, Italian films, films from Taiwan, and local productions” was his version of film school, and the impact of this education is evident throughout his work. Having emigrated from Shanghai with his parents in 1963, Wong spent his childhood in Hong Kong’s numerous cinemas. With long-awaited restorations of Wong Kar Wai’s films available at last, BAMPFA presents a retrospective celebration of the Hong Kong auteur’s contribution to contemporary world cinema.