This is the first watch of the second to last Wong Kar-Wai film I have left to see. Being a huge WKW fanboy, this is a big deal, yet, it’s a task I’ve always rather dreaded rather than relished with anticipation. The reason? I’m not a martial arts film fan, particularly wuxia.
Almost exactly a year ago I cracked the seal on a Blu, newly arrived direct from Hong Kong, of Wong’s latest Martial Arts opus, The Grandmaster. It’s funny, looking back at that review now, I feel pretty much the same about Ashes of Time.
Here, in Ashes, I get the same sense that Wong desperately adores the genre; much like Tony Leung’s character from In The Mood for…