ASHES OF TIME REDUX
// 21 May 08 // 3:27
AM // file under: 24fps
#50 ASHES OF TIME REDUX:
"Culled from prints gathered from around the world, this newly re-edited and digitally tweaked iteration runs about 10 minutes shorter than the original, and rather more coherently. The fragmented story involves a melancholic desert dweller (the late Leslie Cheung), who functions as a kind of broker for various swordsmen (Tony Leung Chiu-wai included) and their clients (Brigitte Lin, among others). Drenched in shocking color — the desert shifts from egg-yolk yellow to burnt orange under a cerulean sky — the film is Mr. Wong’s most abstract endeavor, a bold excursion into the realm of pure cinema. It also now seems like one of his most important. “Ashes of Time Redux” will be released by Sony Pictures Classics in September...."
(another review here)
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