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January 7, 2007
Casta Diva 2046
This is a music video trailer for Wong Kar-Wai's 2046. Snippets from "Casta diva" often appear as in film sound designed to cover over a heated disagreement in the manager's apartment. (The manager is a classically trained tenor, his headstrong daughters often test his patience.) The aria is sung by Angela Gheorghiu and the London Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Evelino Pidò.
The film itself stars Tony Chung as Chow Mo-Wan, a womanizing author of nearly-erotic fiction, who writes Hong Kong newspapers to make money for his nightly debauchery. Chow lives in room 2047 of the Oriental Hotel, which shares a wall with room 2046. Several of the films equally independent women live in 2046.
2046 is the title of one of the serialized novels that Chow writes, but there 2046 is a zone on the planet earth in the year 2046 to which many escape but few return.
[1] 2046 soundtrack, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212712/soundtrack
[2] 2046 imdb entry, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212712/
[3] 2046 homepage, sony pictures, http://www.sonyclassics.com/2046/main.html
Posted by sjc at January 7, 2007 10:13 AM
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