This may be my favorite Kar-Wai film (after "In the Mood for Love," of course). It's also the one it seems that the fewest people have seen.

Good article. The author echoes much of what I've said about Wong to others, but I disagree with some of it, for example: "...as each shot yields quickly to the next, they flutter away into the ether. It's hard to make a great argument for their cumulative value..." Especially when the rest of the article consists of exactly such an argument!

By the way, if you like "Fallen Angels," the film that may come the closest to it (other than "Chunking Express," of course) might be "Cyclo," a French-Vietnamese masterpiece of violence and sultry eroticism starring Tony Leung and one of the sexiest women alive, Tran Nu Yen Khe, from director Tran Anh Hung (her husband -- wahh!). Anh Hung also directed the lush, gorgeous film "The Scent of Green Papaya," also starring wife Nu Yen Khe. Benoît Delhomme's brilliant cinematography in both rivals Chris Doyle's!