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Director

Wong Kar-wai

Hong Kong · Shanghai Roots · b. 1958

The choreographer of longing. He shoots time differently — slow motion, blurred frames, clocks that never align. His films are about the impossibility of love, rendered in the most beautiful images in cinema.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →

How you treat cinema as a character study, a character portrait—that's what I've always been struck by and tried to internalize for my own work.

On The Grandmaster  ·  Wong Kar-wai: The Cinema of Wong Kar-wai (A24 book)