Ashes of Time Redux
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Synopsis
ASHES OF TIME REDUX is inspired by characters from Louis Cha’s martial arts novel The Eagle-Shooting Heroes. It centers on a man named Ouyang Feng. Since the woman he loved rejected him, he has lived in the western desert, hiring skilled swordsmen to carry out contract killings. His wounded heart has made him pitiless and cynical, but his encounters with friends, clients and future enemies make him conscious of his solitude…
Directed by Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong/China, 2008
In Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles
93 minutes, Rated R
Reviews
Wong heightens action tropes the way Sergio Leone found arias in western showdowns, though in his version of the Hong Kong martial-arts netherworld the mandatory melees play second fiddle to the characters’ melancholic languor. |
One feels the passionate intensity of the filmmaker in every strand of his luminously intricate narrative. | Elliptical, sweeping, lovely and thoroughly confusing, Ashes of Time Redux is not a film to rent. It’s well worth paying to see it on the big screen. |
Wong heightens action tropes the way Sergio Leone found arias in western showdowns, though in his version of the Hong Kong martial-arts netherworld the mandatory melees play second fiddle to the characters’ melancholic languor. |
One feels the passionate intensity of the filmmaker in every strand of his luminously intricate narrative. |
Elliptical, sweeping, lovely and thoroughly confusing, Ashes of Time Redux is not a film to rent. It’s well worth paying to see it on the big screen. |