MOVIE REVIEW | '2046'
Desire and Loss in the Curve of a Back
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: August 5, 2005
The eighth feature film from the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai is an unqualified triumph.
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The affair between Chow and Bai Ling consumes only part of the story (a science-fiction allegory that Chow writes constitutes another), but Ms. Zhang's shockingly intense performance burns a hole in the film that gives everything, including all the other relationships, a sense of terrific urgency....