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Name: Ashes of Time Redux
Released: 2009-3-3
Cast: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Lesilie Cheung

Ashes of Time Redux

R
1h 34m
2009

78%

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From Director Wong Kar Wai comes the definitive version of Ashes of Time, an epic martial arts masterpiece of larger-than-life characters, breathtaking landscapes and exquisite fight scenes. The story centers on Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung), a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, interweaving the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes, he begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Producer:

Tsai Mu-Ho

Writer:

Wong Kar-Wai

Cast:

Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Lesilie Cheung

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

78%

Critics Consensus: Wong Kar Wai's redux, with a few slight changes from his 1994 classic, is a feast for the eyes, if a little difficult to follow.

Reviews

Spectrum Culture

David Harris

Convoluted, cryptic and confusing, but it looks and sounds amazing.

Without a comprehensible plot, Ashes of Time Redux feels like a waste of time.

...mostly this is a movie that wants to linger on mesmerizing movement.

If Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time Redux (2008) is not the most beautiful movie ever made, then at least its beauty is sufficient to obliterate, for the moment, the memory of all others.

It's hard to recommend a film as frustratingly inaccessible as this one, but if you go into the theater expecting a trip to an art gallery, you might be pleasantly surprised.

June 21, 2017

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