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MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
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y Blueberry Nights, which opened the 60th Cannes Film Festival earlier this year in May, marks the first collaboration between Wong
tangible distance between two persons can be quite small but the emotional one can be miles. This film is a look at those dis- tances, from various angles.
“I wanted to explore these expanses, both figuratively and literally, and the lengths it takes to overcome them.”
The director and Khondji are now planning together a remake of Orson Welles’ 1947 film noir classic The Lady From Shanghai, with, it’s rumoured, Nicole Kidman in the old Rita Hayworth role.■
My Blueberry Nights, which opens here in February, was originated on 35mm ETERNA 500T
8573 and ETERNA 250D 8563
Kar-wai, the acclaimed Chinese direc- tor, and Tehran-born cinematographer Darius Khondji AFC ASC.
For Kar-wai, whose past films such as In The Mood For Love, Happy Together and 2046 have been marked by the contribution of Christopher Doyle HKSC, My Blueberry Nights is also his first English-language feature.
Filmed in Nevada, California, Tennessee and New York, it’s a sort of romantic-comic road movie revolving around Elizabeth, a pie-eating drifter (played by singer-songwriter Norah Jones) who takes to the US highway on the rebound from a long relationship.
In the course of various waitressing jobs across the States she bumps into a number of equally lost souls played by the likes
of Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz and David Strathairn.
Using the kind of rich and smoky colours remi- niscent of the director’s earlier work, there is, how- ever, a bigger canvas than before reflected in the use of Cinemascope.
According to Wong Kar-wai: “Sometimes the
“Sometimes
the tangible distance between two persons can be quite small but the emotional one can be miles...”
Photos: Scenes from My Blueberry Nights starring Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz and David Strathairn
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