Days of Being Wild(阿飛正傳)

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After years of work-for-hire, writer-director Wong Kar-wai found his creative voice, discovered his themes and styles, and solidified his collaborative creative team with this brilliant examination of one-way love and crashed relationships. (Review of Original Release)

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

It's inexplicable that Wong's early masterpiece has been virtually absent from American screens since he completed it in 1991.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

Its themes of passion, heartbreak and the inexorable passage of time are eternal.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Revived (with vastly improved subtitles) some 14 years after it first stunned Hong Kong critics, Days of Being Wild is a sort of meta-reverie populated by a cast of beautiful young pop icons.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Wong Kar-wai's idiosyncratic style first became apparent in this gorgeously moody second feature.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Crust

Director Wong is at his best in this rerelease of the 1991 film.

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

As he (Wong Kar-wai) floods the screen with beauty and fills the soundtrack with hypnotic rhythms, he forges a filmmaking style of incomparable eroticism.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

Sometimes cinema's highest achievements become clear only in retrospect. Days of Being Wild--now clearly revealed as one of the peaks of Hong Kong filmmaking and a masterwork of contemporary cinema giant Wong.