The World of Wong Kar Wai

With his exquisite stories of lost love, loneliness and the burden of regret, auteur Wong Kar Wai has created some of the most achingly romantic films in modern cinema. Using breathtaking visuals and non-linear narratives, he builds ravishing, dreamlike worlds full of saturated colours, introspective voiceovers and characters burning with repressed longing. These mesmerising meditations on desire, time and memory have made him one of the most influential directors working today. This essay introduces the ravishing world of Wong Kar Wai; his ideas, preoccupations and heartaches as well as his collaborators and techniques.