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Tears, Time, and Love
2005
Overview
In 1988, when Wong Kar-wai directed his first film,As Tears Go By, he had already been working in the Hong Kong film industry for a number of years, principally as a scriptwriter. The project was initially given to Wong as a star vehicle for Andy Lau, a popular singer at the time (Carbon 36), initiating a pattern that has continued throughout the director’s career. In an interview with the French journalPositif, whose critics were early supporters of Wong’s films, the director explained thatAs Tears Go Bywas originally intended to be the second film in a trilogy:
