Ah Fei jing juen 1990

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A triumph of movie pop poetics. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: It now seems like a promising apprentice work, almost a blueprint for the writer-director's most acclaimed and famous film, In the Mood for Love. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Every shot is perfectly composed and compelling, with light and shadow manipulated to maximum effect. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: There are images in Days that can make your heart stop for no other reason than that they're perfect. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Wong is a born cinema virtuoso who can elicit genuine emotions while expressing them amid an atmosphere of the most sweeping romanticism. Read more

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Kim Morgan, L.A. Weekly: Feels exciting, in part, because you are watching an auteur lay the groundwork -- with an assortment of clocks, watches and meticulously detailed moments -- for ideas and moods he will obsessively follow in later films. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: Wong creates a dream state of shifting, stalling, liquid time, a kind of gauzy unreality that made In the Mood for Love so seductive. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: In many ways, Days of Being Wild anticipated the overall pattern of its writer-director- auteur's haunting career. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: A rapturous film about cool men, hot women and the thousand and one nights and cigarettes they share. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Needless to say a must-see for Wongcolytes, Days of Being Wild is also an excellent entry point for people who haven't yet caught this most exotic and habit-forming of cinematic bugs. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Arguably this is the key movie in Wong's oeuvre, as startling in its context as Hiroshima Mon Amour and Breathless were in theirs. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It may have been released in the olden days of 1991, but Wong Kar-Wai's Days of Being Wild remains pulsatingly contemporary. Read more