Secondary Quotes

• ‘aueter filmmaker wong kar wai is one of the few cinematic poets of the post-modern age.'
• 'he paints mood and texture with light and shadow, sound and image, visage and montage, joy and sorrow.'
• 'he is a superb sensualist who never compromises his elliptical story-telling by pandering to conventional narrative.'
• Fallen Angels spoke to me like no other film had before. I, too, liked to smoke and dine alone. I was also lonely but wanted to find glamour in solitude. I wanted to be in a world of red lipstick, cigarettes, lingerie, smoky bars, grime, desperate passion, and desire. The film is dark, moody, and violent, and at the same time, hopeful. It spoke to all the different parts of my young and yearning heart.