Bridport Arts Centre
One of the most swooningly beautiful and romantic films ever made, Wong Kar-wai’s 21st century masterpiece is the perfect early valentine.
Set in Hong Kong in 1962 – with a breathtaking coda at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat – two neighbours discover that their respective partners are having an affair. As they’re drawn closer together they find themselves enmeshed in their own romance.
Maggie Cheung, wearing a succession of figure-hugging qipao/cheongsam dresses, and Tony Leung, with a look of bruised-but-suave elegance, must be among the big screen’s most glamorous couples. Their developing relationship is brilliantly captured by Wong and cinematographers Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Bing Ping, lingering over the smallest gestures and saturating the screen with colours reflecting the sweaty heat and passion.
This is a film of tremendous subtlety, but also sweeping emotion. It’s almost impossible not to keep replaying many of the scenes over and over in your head afterwards.
Hong Kong/France, 2000. Director Wong Kar-wai. With Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. 98 mins. PG
Thursday 12 February at 7.30pm
Ticket Prices from £5.00
Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901 or www.bridport-arts.com
