The long-awaited retrospective from the internationally renowned film director celebrated for
his visually lush and atmospheric films. Wong Kar Wai is known for his romantic and stylish
films that explore in saturated cinematic scenes themes of love longing and the burden of
memory. His style reveals a fascination with mood and texture and a sense of place figures
prominently. In this volume the first on his entire body of work Wong Kar Wai and writer John
Powers explore Wong s complete oeuvre in the locations of some of his most famous scenes. The
book is structured as six conversations between Powers and Wong (each in a different locale)
including the restaurant where he shot In the Mood for Love and the snack bar where he shot
Chungking Express. Discussing each of Wong s eleven films the conversations also explore Wong
s trademark themes of time nostalgia and beauty and their roots in his personal life. This
first book by Wong Kar Wai lavishly illustrated with more than 250 photographs and film stills
and featuring an opening critical essay by Powers WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wei is as
evocative as walking into one of Wong s lush films.
