The long-awaited retrospective from the internationally renowned film director celebrated for his visually lush and atmospheric films. Wong Kar Wai is known for his romantic and stylish films that explore—in saturated, cinematic scenes—themes of love, longing, and the burden of memory. His style reveals a fascination with mood and texture, and a sense of place figures prominently. In this volume, the first on his entire body of work, Wong Kar Wai and writer John Powers explore Wong’s complete oeuvre in the locations of some of his most famous scenes.
Through six conversations we follow WKW through the jungle of his movies and get to know everything from how he creates the atmosphere of the most intense scenes, to how he struggled when some of his films were poorly received. Between chapters where past films and childhood memories are discussed the pages are covered with gorgeous photos from all his movies and a ton of behind-the-scenes photos. To me, WKW has always seemed like a more mysterious director or at least more secretive than other directors which you hear news from all the time, so the book definitely filled a void of things I wondered about ever since I first began watching his movies. A hearty recommendation to any fan of his films, and whether you're reading about juicy actor backstories from In the Mood for Love (2000) or how he were a bit regretful regarding the lead roles in Fallen Angels (1995), you're bound to be fascinated by one of the greatest minds in the history of cinema.
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