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Review by Vives Anunciacion Inquirer Libre, December 5, 2004 2046 Written, Directed and Produced by Wong Kar Wai Starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Faye Wong PG 13 / 124 minutes Block 2 Pictures and Paradis Films / Shanghai Film Group / Jet Tone Films Opens today Wong Kar Wai may be one of the few filmmakers of world cinema, Lav Diaz included, who can get away with almost anything which eventually become cinematically notorious. 2046 is a feverish recollection of chance encounters and prolonged repression. 2046 brings back playboy sleaze writer Chow Mo Wan (still played by the controlled Tony Leung Chiu Wai) in the cramped hotel rooms of Hong Kong and Singapore during decadent 1960s Asia. 2046 tells the many passionate encounters between Mo Wan and the different occupants of hotel room 2046 (and 2047). He then translates these encounters into his futuristic erotica for a Singapore newspaper. When Chow and Su Li-zhen Chan (Maggie Cheung) cross paths at th...

Review by Vives Anunciacion Inquirer Libre, Nov 29, 2004 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Directed by Beeban Kidron Based on the novel by Helen Fielding Written by Andrew Davies, Helen Fielding, Richard Curtis, Adam Brooks Starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant PG 13 / 108 minutes Universal Pictures Opens December 1 Oh no, she’s back. The girl with relationship problems. She who made us laugh at her relationship problems and made us think it’s okay to do that. And she still has problems. But you shan’t sing poor unfortunate soul. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason takes place four months after the events of Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001). Renée Zellweger returns in the Edge of Reason, yet again as the overstuffed self-invented career maiden Bridget Jones. Jones is enjoying her fresh status as girlfriend of the classy human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). She’s also getting a career boost as a rather adventurous broadcast journalist. Everything is bl...