At last it is the final episode of the fourth season of Enter The Void. And to mark the occasion we're not just talking about Wong Kar-wai's 2046 (2004) but also the two films with which it forms a loose trilogy: 1990's Days of Being Wild and especially 2000's In the Mood for Love. Better still, Bill and Renan are joined by Wong aficionado Samarth Bhaskar from the New York Times. In this, they cover: lucking into a theatrical screening of Wong's films; a valiant attempt to describe what happens in 2046; how the three films relate to each other; what exactly the number "2046" is supposed to represent; how the films relate to Hong Kong's precarious political situation; which camera angles Wong favors for his actresses; what Quentin Tarantino thought about 2046, and why TF is this movie so damn hard to find?
Film links:
2046 on IMDb 2046 on Wikipedia In the Mood for Love on IMDb In the Mood for Love on Wikipedia Days of Being Wild on IMDb Days of Being Wild on Wikipedia Film Comment on 2046 Manohla Dargis on 2046 Fran Kranz in The Dissolve about 2046 Analysis of the three films as a trilogy One country, two systems at WikipediaGuest links:
Samarth Bhaskar on Twitter Samarth Bhaskar on LetterboxdShow links:
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