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Eros

2004

Wong Kar-Wai, Steven Soderbergh ...

Gong Li, Chang Chen, Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin ...

5.8

2,235

Drama. Romance Wong Kar wai’s "Shou" (The Hand) is the story of a young tailor’s long-unrequired love for a beautiful Hong Kong courtesan. Over many years, he lovingly crafts the clothes she wears for other men. Over time, the seemingly unattainable fantasy woman loses everything, just as the tailor prospers in his career. Then the unexpected happens. Steven Soderbergh’s Equilibrium is about a stressed-out 1950s advertising man who has been suffering ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Interesting misfires from Wong Kar-wai and Steven Soderbergh barely manage to atone for the seedy muddle concocted by eightysomething Michelangelo Antonioni (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"The three films are watchable but resolutely minor works, though each has something to recommend it."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[Antonioni's] is clumsily acted and closer to standard porn than anything else he's done (...) The one masterpiece here is Wong Kar-wai's moving 'The Hand' (...) I guess one out of three ain't bad"	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"The auteurist feast turns out to be a paltry spread, with one director on autopilot, another playing it safe, and the last apparently working on assignment"	NEG
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Lovely though it is to look at, it does not reveal very much."	NEU
United States	David Rooney Variety	"What might have been a cinephile’s wet dream turns out instead to be seductive, stimulating and sodden, in that order"	NEU
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"[This collection] must have sounded like a great idea; after all, these are fine filmmakers. But the result is far less interesting."	NEG

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