ASHES OF TIME REDUX

Starts Friday, November 21st

Free Loft Members' Screening on Friday, November 21st at 7:00pm

"A bold excursion into the realm of pure cinema. It now also seems like one of Mr. Wong's most important." - Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Wong Kar Wai's ravishing swirl of an ancient Chinese martial-arts saga has been opultently restored, rescored and reedited ... for the love of all things sensual and mysterious, see this one on the big screen." - Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"A vision to behold! Exhilaratingly surreal!" - Ty Burr, THE BOSTON GLOBE

"Insanely gorgeous!" - J. Hoberman, THE VILLAGE VOICE

Celebrated Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai works his lush, cinematic magic in this long planned "reworking" of his legendary, romantic and one-and-only martial arts film from 1994, previously unreleased in North America.
Set in ancient China, ASHES OF TIME REDUX is inspired by characters from Louis Cha’s classic martial arts novel The Eagle-Shooting Heroes. The film centers on a man named Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung), a fallen swordsman who is afraid of love after having his heart broken. Since the woman he loved rejected him, he has lived in the western desert, hiring skilled swordsmen like Hung Chi (Jacky Cheung) and the "Blind Swordsman" (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) to carry out contract killings. His wounded heart has made him pitiless and cynical, but his encounters with friends, clients and future enemies make him conscious of his solitude, and force him to confront his inner demons.
Wildy atmospheric, deeply melancholic and stunningly cinematic in ways that only Wong Kar Wai can deliver, ASHES OF TIMES REDUX also features an appearance by the great Maggie Cheung, star of Wong Kar Wai's masterpiece, In the Mood for Love.

VISIT THE OFFICIAL MOVIE WEBSITE:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/ashesoftimeredux/