Days of Being Wild seems to take place under the cover of night, or at least underneath thick humid clouds.

| Jan 5, 2022

Moderately interesting.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 27, 2021

Watching Days of Being Wild today, all those feelings unfurled like one of the tortured romances on screen, the ache striking you in a different part of your heart.

| Mar 19, 2021

These days are both electric and exhausted.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 25, 2015

A dark moody period piece about unrequited love.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 19, 2006

Twelve years after first seeing Days of Being Wild, I'm finally developing some fondness for it.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2005

The '60s were a time of alienation and sadness, which I suppose Wong was trying to reflect here. But he's chosen characters so monumentally self-destructive that it's difficult to care about them.

| Mar 12, 2005

Unless the film is pure homage, the film lacks authenticity

Full Review | Mar 10, 2005

Wong has a reputation for slow-moving mood pieces in which very little happens, but that's not the case here.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2005

Wong's always-striking visual style uses floating, neon colors and extreme angles to emphasize disconnected souls.

| Feb 28, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 26, 2005

Needless to say a must-see for Wongcolytes, Days of Being Wild is also an excellent entry point for people who haven't yet caught this most exotic and habit-forming of cinematic bugs.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 25, 2005

Every shot is perfectly composed and compelling, with light and shadow manipulated to maximum effect.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 25, 2005

It now seems like a promising apprentice work, almost a blueprint for the writer-director's most acclaimed and famous film, In the Mood for Love.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 18, 2005

There are images in Days that can make your heart stop for no other reason than that they're perfect.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 18, 2005

Set in the 1960s and shot on practically deserted locations, there isn’t much “story” to the impressionistic film, but the languorous atmosphere of longing, disconnection, and emotional isolation is hypnotic.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 17, 2005

It may have been released in the olden days of 1991, but Wong Kar-Wai's Days of Being Wild remains pulsatingly contemporary.

| Feb 3, 2005

A triumph of movie pop poetics.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 13, 2005

A heady mix of sex, obsession, alienation and angst.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2005