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Days of Being Wild

1990, Movie, 1h 34min

The breakthrough sophomore feature by Wong Kar Wai represents the first full flowering of his swooning signature style. The initial entry in a loosely connected, ongoing cycle that includes IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and 2046, this ravishing existential reverie is a dreamlike drift through the Hong Kong of the 1960s in which a band of wayward twentysomethings—including a disaffected playboy (Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing) searching for his birth mother, a lovelorn woman (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) hopelessly enamored with him, and a policeman (Andy Lau Tak Wah) caught in the middle of their turbulent relationship—pull together and push apart in a dance of frustrated desire. The director’s inaugural collaboration with both cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who lends the film its gorgeously gauzy, hallucinatory texture, and actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who appears briefly in a tantalizing teaser for a never-realized sequel, DAYS OF BEING WILD is an exhilarating first expression of Wong’s trademark themes of time, longing, dislocation, and the restless search for human connection.

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Reviews

Critic Abby Hoffman

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...paints a highly evocative picture of a steamy and claustrophic world of Brylcreemed hair, Dansettes, stilettos and a youth culture which seems as unmotivated and self-obsessed as the Slacker generation.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Joey O'Bryan

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...this ensemble is just about perfect, with many of these famous faces giving the best performances of their careers.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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Days of Being Wild is a Hong Kong drama film released in 1990, directed by Wong Kar-wai. The movie follows the life of Yuddy, a smooth-talking playboy who seduces women but doesn't want to commit to a serious relationship. After discovering that his adoptive mother is not his biological mother, Yuddy embarks on a journey to find his birth mother in the Philippines. Along the way, he encounter's his friend's, Tide's, failed romance with Li-zhen and Mimi's unrequited love for him. The film explores themes of loneliness, identity, and the search for meaning in life. With its memorable characters, poetic narrative, and iconic music, Days of Being Wild is a classic of Hong Kong cinema.

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Days of Being Wild is currently unavailable to stream in undefined on the streaming services we have in our catalogue

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