2046

Wong Kar-Wai, 2004
Colour, cert 12, 129 mins

Saturday 26 April, 2.30pm
Sainsbury Wing Theatre

The title of the film refers to the 50th year after the handover of Hong Kong: a future where ‘nothing ever changes’.

Back in the more familiar territory of the 1960s, the successive love affairs of a pulp-fiction writer seem equally immutable. Wong Kar-Wai mysteriously weaves his sci-fi thread with the writer’s story to explore nostalgia and lost memories.

The director suspected that his film would turn out ‘like an opera’, and there are those elements – rich costumes, sensuous music and amplified emotions – but it is the silky, languorous pace that sets its apart.

Tickets: £4/£3 concessions

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