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Information
- Year
- 2004
- Runtime
- 104 min.
- Directors
- Steven Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni, Kar-wai Wong
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rating *
- 6.0
- Votes *
- 4,561
- Checks
- 539
- Favs
- 10
- Dislikes
- 19
- Favs/checks
- 1.9% (1:54)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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dovele
Wong Kar Wai's segment "The Hand" was rather pleasant, other two were mediocre. 5 years 2 months ago -
Siskoid
The Hand: The extended version of Wong Kar-wai's contribution to 2004's Eros, The Hand takes place in 1960s Hong Kong, one would imagine just a couple doors down from In the Mood for Love. Gong Li and Chang Chen even feel like Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung analogs, though the characters and relationship are different. Wong Kar-wai's idea of eroticism is the world of touch rather than sight. Touch activating a young tailor's apprentice's passions for a distant prostitute, something he can only really experience vicariously, through the caressing of her clothes. While it might only have emotionally bloomed at feature-length, it does manage to evoke sense memory, and of course, every Wong Kar-wai/Christopher Doyle collaboration is to be cherished and looks amazing. While the frames within frames aspect of In the Mood for Love tended to keep people apart, here they are more often than not mirrors, turning people onto themselves in images of vanity or inwardness that keeps external love at bay. Gong Li, doll-like and doomed, has her face frequently obscured, her emotions unknowable, and in that distance we find the man's fantasy of her. 2 years 7 months ago