Wong Kar-wai on 'The Leonard Lopate Show'

From PRI's The Leonard Lopate Show 03 April, 2008 02:07:00

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The Hong Kong director talks about his first English-language film, 'My Blueberry Nights.'

Wong Kar-wai has explored the different gradations of longing and lost in any number of his films from "Chungking Express" to "In the Mood for Love," but Americans have always seen them with subtitles because his movies were in Cantonese. But that's not the case in his latest, "My Blueberry Nights," his first English-language film.

Wong describes "My Blueberry Nights" as "a story of a woman who takes the long route instead of the short one to meet up with the man she loves."

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