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Wong Kar-Wai - Biography

 

WriterWong Kar-Wai
Born in 1958
Place: Shanghai
His father was the manager of a hotel

1964 Wong Kar-Wai leaves Communist China with his parents towards Hong-Kong. He was 19 when he started working as assistant producer on tv, he later became screenwriter for tv series.

1997 : He received an Award for Cheun gwong tsa sit (Happy Together ) with Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Leslie Cheun at the Cannes film Festival and best photography for Happy Together at theHongKong Film Awards

1988 Wong Kar-Wai directed his first film " As Tears Go By" with Maggie Cheung, this film was presented at the semaine ofla Critique in Cannes

1994 "FIPRESCI" Award for Chong qing sen lin (Chungking Express ) with Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung at the Stockholm Film Festival

1995 Best director for  Dung che sai duk (Les cendres du temps) with Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Leslie Cheung at the HongKong Film Critics Society Awards

1997 Happy Together received than Award at the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival

2000 In the Mood for Love, competed in Cannes, and was a huge success worldwiof

2004 2046 participated in the official selection at the Cannes film Festival. Critics said it is a "sublime exploration of interior self"

2005 Wong Kar-Wai received an Award for his films and the importance he has given to Asian cinema throughout the world at the Bangkok Festival in january.

2006 Wong Kar Wai will be the president of the Jury at the 59th, edition of the Cannes Film Festival. He will be the first chinese president of the Festival. The previous president was Emir Kusturica, in 2005

Filmography


2010 The Lady from Shanghai - Wong Kar-Wai
2010 The Grand Master - Wong Kar-Wai
2007 There's Only One Sun - Wong Kar-Wai
2007 Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence
2007 My Blueberry Nights - Wong Kar-Wai
2004 Eros  - Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh
2004 Eros - Steven Soderbergh
2004 2046 - Wong Kar-Wai
2001 The Hire: Follow - Wong Kar-Wai
2000 Fa yeung nin wa - Wong Kar-Wai
1997 In tne mood for love - Wong Kar-Wai
1995 Duo luo tian shi - Wong Kar-Wai
1995 Dung che sai duk - Wong Kar-Wai
1994 Chong qing sen lin - Wong Kar-Wai
1991 A Fei jing juen - Wong Kar-Wai
1988 Wong gok ka moon - Wong Kar-Wai
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