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Ashes of Time Redux
Sony Pictures Classics
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for some violence
Starring
Leslie Cheung,
Tony Leung Chiu Wai,
Jacky Cheung,
Brigitte Lin,
and
Maggie Cheung
The film is set in five parts, five seasons that are part of the Chinese almanac. The story takes place in the jianghu, the world of the martial arts. Ouyang Feng has lived in the western desert for some years. He left his home in White Camel Mountain when the woman he loved chose to marry his elder brother rather than him. Instead of seeking glory, he ends up as an agent. When people come to him with a wish to eliminate someone who has wronged them, he puts them in touch with a swordsman who can do the job. (Sony Picture Classics)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Louis Cha (novel)
Kar Wai Wong
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Kar Wai Wong
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: October 10, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Hong Kong | China |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Mandarin | Cantonese |
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89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Dreamlike, disjointed, and possessed of a stunningly complex sensual and narrative poetry that may confound audiences not familiar with Chinese director Wong's defining stylistic tropes, Ashes of Time Redux is, simply, one of the most gorgeous films ever made.
83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
For the love of all things sensual and mysterious, see this one on a big screen.
80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
"Ashes" is glorious and ultimately wrenching, but it's a tough journey.
80
Washington Post
John Anderson
Deliriously beautiful movie.
80
Village Voice
Michelle Orange
Wittily, earnestly, gorgeously sets up the paradox he has returned to throughout his career--that of romantic memory as both scourge and succor.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's a little visually precious and obscure but still a marvelously wistful film of regret and retreat, in which even the magic wine of forgetfulness erases only the memories, not the pain.
75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
"Ashes of Time" was always more a work of philosophy than pure entertainment, and a decade and a half later it still is.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Windblown, with a sage and playful Zen vibe, Wong Kar Wai's Ashes of Time Redux is a color-saturated, slo-mo martial arts piece about time, memory, love, regret, betrayal.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Ashes of Time Redux is primarily a sensory experience that deserves to be seen on as big a screen as possible.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Strange and beautiful and transfixing and confusing, it's quite the sight - martial-arts fans may find themselves disappointed, but Wong Kar-wai addicts will be delighted.
75
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
One man's befuddlement is another's awe at the ineffability of time, and from either perspective, this is a spectacle not soon forgotten, even if never understood.
75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The film has all the visual flourishes we expect of Doyle and Wong, and they're reason enough to see Ashes of Time Redux. Just don't expect to make sense of the plot.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Reyhan Harmanci
Elliptical, sweeping, lovely and thoroughly confusing.
75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Yet for all Ashes' frustrations, it's still a gorgeous piece of filmmaking.
70
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
As in the original version, the fights are outweighed by existential angst and Buddhist introspection, but the sequence in which a blind swordsman (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) takes on an army of thieves is still gangbusters.
60
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Only in its final scenes do the usual WKW themes emerge in full bloom, but purists shouldn't miss it.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Peter Brunette
Martial-arts lovers may find it too arty, and art-film lovers, Wong's international fan base, may find it too generic and too violent.
50
Variety
Derek Elley
The temptation of artists to fiddle with their earlier works brings predictably mixed results in Ashes of Time: Redux.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I enjoyed Ashes of Time Redux, up to a point. It's great-looking, and the characters all know what they would, although we do not.
50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Ashes of Time Redux remains a hermetic and rather frustrating work, dotted by lonely, windblown figures dwarfed by the sand dunes of western China.
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