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Ashes Of Time Redux [Blu-ray] [2008] [DVD] [2009]
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| Genre | Action & Adventure/Martial Arts |
| Format | PAL |
| Contributor | Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Wong Kar-Wai, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Kar Fai |
| Language | Chinese |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 30 minutes |
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Import Blu-ray/Region All pressing. Celebrated director Wong Kar-Wai revisits his 1994 film Ashes of Time, the Hong Kong filmmaker's only entry into the martial arts genre. Based on the novel by Louis Cha, this film follows a lone swordsman (Leslie Cheung) as time passes. Ashes of Time Redux also stars Tony Leung Ka Fai, Brigitte Lin, and Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and it features an appearance by Maggie Cheung.
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- Language : Chinese
- Package Dimensions : 16.76 x 13.46 x 1.27 cm; 85.05 Grams
- Item model number : 5021866004402
- Director : Wong Kar-Wai
- Media Format : PAL
- Run time : 1 hour and 30 minutes
- Release date : 26 Jan. 2009
- Actors : Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Tony Leung Kar Fai
- Dubbed: : English
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Artificial Eye
- ASIN : B001L4I1VE
- Country of origin : United Kingdom
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 6,632 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)
- 2,192 in Blu-ray
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2) You have been hired to take multiple contracts.
3) They involve killing each party who hired you.
4) One of whom, loves you.
5) One who wants his sister for himself.
6) She wants you/your best friend.
7) He is one of those you've been hired to kill.
8) So is she.
9) And her brother.
10) There's a camel.
11) And, a very interesting bottle of wine.
A very strange, but interesting film on who we are and, what, given the circumstances, motivates us.
(I want that bottle of wine!!!!).
Even though the print is no more than adequate,Christopher Doyle's peerless cinematography shines through and Wong Kar Wai's preoccupation with loss and memory works fairly well and a cast with Tony Leung as well as Leslie and Maggie Cheung is always worth a look.
BUT
Even though it is impossible to overlook the splendour of the exquisite In the Mood For Love(surely the Brief Encounter of our age)and the serpentine but marvellous sequel 2046,Wong Kar Wai is an alarmingly over-rated film maker who favours technique over narrative cohesion.Happy Together,Chungking Express(dull and pretentious,a fatal combination,but seemingly beloved by critics and peers alike)and Ashes of Time "a martial arts epic"according to Artifical Eye are all examples of his self indulgence.
It may well be comparing apples with pears but Wai is infinitely inferior to such predecessors as Mizoguchi,Ozu and even Naruse who all used the same themes to differing effect in much more elegant and cerebral fashion without forgetting to tell us a story.
At the risk of disappearing up my own pretentiousness, may I suggest Johnnie To,the arch exponent of the Hong Kong "gangster/police procedural" whose films such as The Mission,Exiled,Election, Election 2 and Running Out Of Time explore similar themes- loss,memory,alienation with a delightfully deft touch and within the confines of a particular genre.
Ashes Of Time is Wong Kar Wai at his most self indulgent -give me ITMFL any day.
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