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Days of Being Wild
Directed by
Wong Kar-wai
Not Rated
1990
1h 34m
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7.4
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A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
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Cast of Days of Being Wild
Leslie Cheung
Yuddy
Andy Lau
Tide
Maggie Cheung
Su Li-zhen
Carina Lau
Leung Fung-ying
Jacky Cheung
Zeb
Rebecca Pan
Rebecca
Tony Leung
Chow Mo-wan
Maritoni Fernandez
Hotel Maid
Alicia Alonzo
Housekeeper
Tita Muñoz
Yuddy's Mother
Hung Ling-Ling
Nurse
Angela Ponos
Prostitute
Danilo Antunes
Rebecca's Lover
Elena Lim So
Hotel Manageress
Mei-Mei Hung
Amah
Nonong Talbo
Train Conductor
Mama Hung
Wong Kar-wai
Director / Writer
Jeffrey Lau
Writer
Rover Tang
Producer
Days of Being Wild Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Every shot is perfectly composed and compelling, with light and shadow manipulated to maximum effect.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
It now seems like a promising apprentice work, almost a blueprint for the writer-director's most acclaimed and famous film, In the Mood for Love.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
There are images in Days that can make your heart stop for no other reason than that they're perfect.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Set in the 1960s and shot on practically deserted locations, there isn't much "story" to the impressionistic film, but the languorous atmosphere of longing, disconnection, and emotional isolation is hypnotic.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It may have been released in the olden days of 1991, but Wong Kar-Wai's Days of Being Wild remains pulsatingly contemporary.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A triumph of movie pop poetics.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
A heady mix of sex, obsession, alienation and angst.
L.A. Weekly
Kim Morgan
Feels exciting, in part, because you are watching an auteur lay the groundwork -- with an assortment of clocks, watches and meticulously detailed moments -- for ideas and moods he will obsessively follow in later films.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
In many ways, Days of Being Wild anticipated the overall pattern of its writer-director- auteur's haunting career.
Newsday
John Anderson
Wong creates a dream state of shifting, stalling, liquid time, a kind of gauzy unreality that made In the Mood for Love so seductive.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A rapturous film about cool men, hot women and the thousand and one nights and cigarettes they share.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
It's inexplicable that Wong's early masterpiece has been virtually absent from American screens since he completed it in 1991.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Arguably this is the key movie in Wong's oeuvre, as startling in its context as Hiroshima Mon Amour and Breathless were in theirs.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Raw and jagged, only hinting at the greatness that would come. But even imperfect Wong Kar-Wai is better than the best of most.
New York Times
Caryn James
A plotless gangster story is a nearly impossible paradox to pull off, however intelligent the underpinnings of the film.
TV Guide
[A] brilliant examination of one-way love and crashed relationships.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
It goes to show that "average" Wong Kar-Wai is better than just about anyone else on a good day.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Wong is a born cinema virtuoso who can elicit genuine emotions while expressing them amid an atmosphere of the most sweeping romanticism.
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