2046

"Long, enigmatic, rapturously beautiful meditation on romance and remembrance."

"Lovelorn loneliness has never been this mouth-watering."

"It's like a sketchbook. These are images, tones, dialogue and characters that Wong is sure of, and he practices them, but he does not seem very sure why he is making the movie, or where it should end."

"[Zhang's] identity is so strong that it seems to hold the story together most of the time; it really should have been only about her."

"The film combines the sublime and the mundane in ways that previously went unimagined."

"It may help if you grasp the many allusions to Wong's earlier films (including, notably, Days of Being Wild), but it's far from necessary. This, after all, is undeniably real cinema."

"A sumptuous time-teasing story."