Wong offers an artful meditation on the nature of love, making effective use of color schemes (yellows, greens and reds), placid shotmaking and diverse music to deliver a sultry portrait of postwar Hong Kong.
– Bill Muller,
Arizona Republic,
13 Oct 2005
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It may help if you grasp the many allusions to Wong's earlier films (including, notably, Days of Being Wild), but it's far from necessary. This, after all, is undeniably real cinema.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
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Quite simply an incomparably sublime work of art, a triumph of lyricism over narrative in the cinema, and the most exquisite homage to the beauty of women it has ever been my privilege to witness on the screen.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
25 Apr 2007
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The romantic fatalism is so lush that you're invited to get lost in it.