Wong Kar-Wai's Color Obsession | The Independent Photographer

During the 90’s, Hong Kong's Second Wave film director Wong Kar-Wai reached prominence in the world of cinema, gaining recognition from...

During the 90’s, Hong Kong Second Wave film director Wong Kar-Wai reached prominence in the world of cinema, gaining recognition from film critics after breakout hits like Chungking Express, Fallen Angels and In the Mood for Love which expressed the complexities of modern love in Hong Kong. ─── by Rosie Torres, December 2, 2020 83.7K By the late ’90s, along with longtime collaborator and friend, the cinematographer Christopher Doyle, WKW had developed a cinematic idiom based on a palette of certain colors, all with their own meanings and intonations. Behind the scenes on set of Happy Together

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