Wong's poignancy is missing. It's quite a playful film, if at times a little too extravagant. It's a post-credits sequence that obviously signifies that this film is a bit of fun for its director. But as its title suggests, Away With Words is also a sincere meditation on the world, with its many surfaces, textures and moods. The sea and the sky, but also numerous interiors, are captured lovingly and imaginatively by Doyle's lens.
Language is examined too, and the theme of communication.
Like in Ghost Dog , this film shows that you don't need to understand or speak someone's language to interact with them. Verging on the trashy at times, this film emerges as a colorful, spirited and thoughtful work. As you can see from the above, I can't unfortunately report that the new Wong Kar-wai will be at the Sydney fest. His earliest work was produced in his native Germany, but the Ophuls left his homeland in the mid-1930s, and spent several years making films in France, Italy and Holland before settling in Hollywood in 1941. At the top of his form he returned to France in the 1950s creating his final masterpieces.