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Tam, perhaps the Hong Kong New Wave’s most daring cine-modernist and a crucial influence on Wong Kar-wai, teams with DP Christopher Doyle for a high-style “heroic bloodshed” melodrama starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Kenny Bee, and Joey Wong as three friends bound together by ties both criminal and romantic. With shamelessly pulpy plotting, a synth-heavy score, luxuriously expressionistic imagery, and a climactic bloodbath for the ages, My Heart Is That Eternal Rose exists somewhere at the intersection between Wong’s cinema of longing and John Woo’s cinema of wrathful vengeance. One of the unheralded masterworks of Hong Kong filmmaking.

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