All the Reasons Why Wong Kar-wai is the Grandmaster of Cinema

Neon-lit Hong Kong nights, bold floods of color, and dizzyingly dynamic cinematography (unironically) set to American pop music: These are some (but not all) of celebrated director Wong Kar-wai’s trademarks. With Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, and many more, the internationally celebrated Second Wave filmmaker crafts atmospheric musings on romantic yearnings and chance encounters with a unique style marked by sumptuous sensory delights and evocative visual metaphors. In this vi