Synopsis | With his signature sunglasses and a revolutionary visual style, WONG Kar-wai captured the ephemeral nature of time, memory, and longing. His collaboration with cinematographer Christopher Doyle created a lush, neon-soaked aesthetic that has influenced countless filmmakers worldwide. His films are less about plot and more about mood—a mesmerizing dream state you can’t forget. Experience the film that started it all: his 1990 classic, Days of Being Wild (阿飛正傳). Starring legends like Leslie Cheung and Maggie Cheung, it’s a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of restless youth and unrequited love in 1960s Hong Kong.

Programmer's note | The film turns our attention to lives held in time. Time moves forward, yet some hearts remain where they once were. The briefest moments often linger the longest, and love becomes most vivid on that fault line where time no longer moves in step. The characters swings with an air of lightness, but beneath them lies an old ache and the pull of a time that cannot be returned to. From a distance, their youth looks like freedom. The film does not reduce loss as a single event. The film speaks that we may already have learned loss before we learned how to love. Yet, it is through the unfinished feeling and through the lives that come into focus most sharply in absence, that the film opens a path back to the unnamed times. The film leads us back to the unnamed times we still carries within us. It invites us to live once more through the time passed, something that has already gone and yet has never fully come to an end.

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