Love & Neon: The Cinema of Wong Kar-Wai, Brisbane

It’s impossible to watch a movie directed by Wong Kar-Wai and mistake it for the work of another filmmaker. As he has kept proving over his 33-year career to-date, his work is just that distinctive. And while the opposite is true, too — no one will ever confuse a movie helmed by someone else for one of Wong’s efforts — his influence on cinema and his peers is evident in every neon-hued tale of yearning, every mesmerising and aching love story that says as much through its imagery as it does with dialogue, and plenty of martial arts fare as well.

Wong makes films to luxuriate in — to truly feast your eyes upon — and, unsurprisingly, the Gallery of Modern Art wants to celebrate that fact, and his work….