num_pages: 304
description: 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 explorein saturated cinematic scenesthemes 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 Wongs complete oeuvre in the locations of some of his most famous scenes. The book is structured as six conversations between Powers and Wong (each in a different locale) including the restaurant where he shot In the Mood for Love and the snack bar where he shot Chungking Express. Discussing each of Wongs eleven films the conversations also explore Wongs trademark themes of time nostalgia and beauty and their roots in his personal life. This first book by Wong Kar Wai lavishly illustrated with more than 250 photographs and film stills and featuring an opening critical essay by Powers is as evocative as walking into one of Wongs lush films.
language: English
title: WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai
publisher: Rizzoli