25° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

My Blueberry Nights

My Blueberry Nights
by Wong Kar-Wai
Country: Hong Kong, China, France
Year: 2007
Duration: 111'


After a brusque break-up, Elizabeth meets Jeremy, a New York bartender who, every night in his bar, offers her a blueberry pie. Love could spark between the two, but Elizabeth prefers leaving for the United States to get over her broken heart. Wandering around the country, she meets many people with bigger problems than hers, including a tormented police officer, his beautiful wife and an unlucky gambler, thanks to whom she understands the real depth of solitude before going back to Jeremy and his blueberry pies.

“Sometimes the tangible distance between two persons can be quite small but the emotional one can be mile.
My Blueberry Nights is a look at those distances, from various angles. I wanted to explore these expanses, both figuratively and literally, and the lengths it takes to overcome them. The story is from a short film, which was supposed to be part of In the Mood for Love. I like the story a lot, so I decided to extend it.”

Biography

film director

Kar-Wai Wong

(Shanghai, China, 1958) graduated in graphic design in Hong Kong in 1980, and began working for Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Ltd as a production assistant and screenwriter, particularly for the soap opera Don’t Look Now. He made his first feature film, As Tears Go By, in 1988, followed by Days of Being Wild (1991), Ashes of Time (1994) and, particularly, Hong Kong Express (1994), which caught the attention of the critics who named him one of Hong Kong’s best directors. In 1997 he won the award for Best Director at Cannes for Happy Together; in 2000 he directed In the Mood for Love and then its sequel 2046 (2004). In 2004 he directed The Hand, an episode of the collective film Eros.

FILMOGRAFIA

Wong gok ka moon (As Tears Go By, 1988), A Fei jing juen (Days of Being Wild, 1991), Dung che sai duk (Ashes of Time, 1994), Chungking Express (Hong Kong Express, 1994), Duo luo tian shi (Angeli perduti, 1995), Chun gwong cha sit (Happy Together, 1997), Fa yeung nin wa (In the Mood for Love, 2000), 2046 (id., 2004), Eros (ep. La Mano, 2004), My Blueberry Nights (id., 2007).

Cast

& Credits

regia, soggetto/director, story Wong Kar-Wai
sceneggiatura/screenplay Wong Kar-Wai, Lawrence Block
fotografia/director of photography Darius Khondji
scenografia, montaggio/set design, film editor William Chang Suk Ping
costumi/costume design William Chang Suk Ping, Sharon Globerson
musica/music Shigeru Umebayashi, Ry Cooder
suono/sound Claude Letessier
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Jude Law (Jeremy), Norah Jones (Elizabeth), Natalie Portman (Leslie), Rachel Weisz (Sue Lynne), David Strathairn (Arnie), LaVita Brooks (la donna al caffè/cafe woman), Nate Bynum (Harlan), Chad R. Davis (il fidanzato di Elizabeth/Elizabeth’s boyfriend), Trent Dee (il sergente di polizia/police sergeant), Geoff Falk (tenente/lieutenant Mervyn), Jan Falk (Clubber), Christy Hamilton (Terry), Bill Hollis (il dottore/doctor), Benjamin Kanes (Randy), Adriane Lenox, Naseera Lewis (cameriere/waitresses), Miller Pipkin (il cuoco/cook)
produttore/producer Stéphane Kooshmanian, Jean-Louis Piel, Jacky Pang Yee Wah, Wang Wei, Wong Kar-Wai
produzione/production Block 2 Pictures, Jet Tone Production, ou Yi Ltd., Studio Canal
distribuzione/distribution BIM
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