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Synopsis
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In 2046, set in the mid to late 1960's, Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) moves back to Hong Kong after his divorce to his
unfaithful wife and his break-up with Mrs. Su (Maggie Cheung). The refined noble man of In the Mood for Love has
changed: He now freelances in writing pornography, drinks heavily, has a string of women for one-night stands and seeks the
service of prostitutes. He gradually crafts a science-fiction novel about the future named after his room number, 2046, with
characters based on the hotel manager, his daughter (Faye Wong) and her former fiance, Japanese man (Takuya Kimura). One
narrative strand follows his tempestuous affair with a beautiful, bad-tempered call girl, Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi). Another goes
back in time to a tragic, mysterious woman (Gong Li) from a casino in Singapore. More, though, than a story about one man's
romantic entanglements with different women, 2046 is about a gorgeously sustained mood of elegy and melancholy, where
experiences evoke memories, and the present is always colored by echoes of the past.
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Cast & Crew
Reviews
News
2046 Screened At Los Angeles Film Festival
June 26, 2005
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2046 —
director Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited sequel of sorts to his
2000 art-house hit In the Mood for Love,
starring Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi,
Maggie Cheung,
Chang Chen,
Gong Li,
Carina Lau,
Takuya Kimura,
Faye Wong and
Dong Jie —
screened out of competition last night at the 11th Annual Los Angeles Film Festival.
2046 will screen again today at 2:30PM at Laemmle Sunset 2
in West Hollywood, California. General admission is $10. Call the festival at 1-866-FILMFEST for more info on tickets
and passes.
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2046 venue information:
Laemmle Sunset 2
8000 Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, Ca
(323) 848-3500
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Over 260 features and short films will screen at this year's LA Film Festival, which runs from June 16 through today.
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2046 Screened By Wong Kar-wai At Walter Reade Theater
June 18, 2005
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2046 —
director Wong Kar-wai's long-awaited sequel of sorts to his
2000 art-house hit In the Mood for Love,
starring Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi,
Maggie Cheung,
Chang Chen,
Gong Li,
Carina Lau,
Takuya Kimura,
Faye Wong and
Dong Jie —
received a special screening Wednesday night at Walter Reade Theater,
Lincoln Center, as part of the 'Film Comment Select' series
of undistributed films chosen for presentation each year by the editors of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's
Film Comment magazine.
In attendance at the special viewing of 2046 was the elusive director Wong Kar-wai to introduce the film
and to answer questions following the sold out screening. Wearing trademark sunglasses, Wong signed autographs and
posed for photos.
Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker, Wong Kar-wai
and Film Society lead programmer Richard Peña; Sony Pictures Classics' new 2046 poster for the North American release;
Ziyi as Bai Ling from 2046 on the cover of the July/August 2005 issue of Film Comment magazine:
2046, distributed in North America by Sony Pictures Classics, will have its U.S. theatrical debut on August 5, 2005,
in New York and Los Angeles.
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Links
IMDb/2046
Sina/«2046» (Chinese)
Cannes/2046
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