Wong Kar-wai wins Cinema's 'Nobel Prize'

October 21, 2017 19:50

Wong Kar-wai, the celebrated Hong Kong-based director of films like Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love, has won the the Lumiere Award, which the South China Post newspaper noted is 'often described as the "Nobel Prize for cinema'.

'The Lumiere Festival,' the SCMP reported, 'said "Wong's films had 'reached beyond the circle of movie-goers and critics, attracting a public drawn to his search for the aesthetic and poetic".'

'The prize was given to Wong for "his unclassifiable films, each with countless flares of beauty; for the trace he is leaving upon cinema history; for all that is glorious and lingering in his work; for the neon lights of Hong Kong and the snows of Manchuria; and because, after all, dark glasses are undeniably classy,' the festival said, referring to the director's usual look,' the SCMP added.

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