My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Directed by Wong Kar-Wai
Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...
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He made Chungking Express, Happy Together, Days of Being Wild, 2046 and In the Mood for Love.
Composed like “ Chungking Express ,” where different segments are compiled to tell one story, “My Blueberry Nights” would have worked better as a series of shorts, because the pieces never really add up to the whole.
Set in Hong Kong, Chungking Express also features a lovely pop star (Faye Wong) entranced with longing and imagining across time and space.
The director of such contemporary masterworks of longing and lost love as “2046,” “In the Mood for Love,” “Chungking Express,” “Happy Together” and “Days of Being Wild,” Wong makes movies where heartache and obsession are communicated through silent stares, pop songs, mood lighting, colorful art direction and even the great hairstyles of the 1960s.
(I would put "In the Mood for Love" at the tippy-top and then make room just below for "Happy Together" and "Chungking Express").
From the mind of the man who brought us fembots of the future (2046) and a lovelorn imp who breaks into her secret love's apartment to restock the fish tank and rearrange the stuffed animals (Chungking Express), we get … the puppy-faced mope of Jones?
Slide-guitarist Ry Cooder is on the soundtrack as well, and his presence reminded me not just of the musical artists that Cooder has helped make a commercially rewarding border-crossing to America (they include Ali Farka Touré and Buena Vista Social Club) but also to the Wim Wenders film he scored, Paris, Texas.
'My Blueberry Nights' Four very good actors are trapped in the boundlessly inane "My Blueberry Nights," the first English language feature by "In the Mood for Love" director Wong Kar Wai.
He made Chungking Express, Happy Together, Days of Being Wild, 2046 and In the Mood for Love.
For most of his career, the Hong Kong director has been obsessed with the subject of love, and while that obsession has resulted in some great films (“Happy Together," “In the Mood for Love"), it’s about time he tried something new.
The director of such contemporary masterworks of longing and lost love as “2046,” “In the Mood for Love,” “Chungking Express,” “Happy Together” and “Days of Being Wild,” Wong makes movies where heartache and obsession are communicated through silent stares, pop songs, mood lighting, colorful art direction and even the great hairstyles of the 1960s.
Wong romanticizes urban New York with the same woozy color and retro glamour as his yesteryear Hong Kong of "In The Mood for Love."
Each of these actors contributes vivid portraits, but Wong's focus (as in his exquisite recent films "In the Mood for Love" and "2046") is on mood and detail: on the way Elizabeth takes a deep breath as she enters the cafe, letting us, too, smell its sweetness; on the lollipop colors of Las Vegas and the chalky dryness of a green-felt casino tabletop; on the way melting vanilla ice cream merges with a still-warm pie; and on how, when Jeremy wipes a smudge of that ice cream from the face of a sleeping Elizabeth, the film seems to slow down, as if the world's been suspended.