Wong Kar Wai's widescreen My Blueberry Nights is a delicious mood poem, a visually stunning ode to the lips of Norah Jones and Jude Law, who deliver the film's highlight: a soft, sumptuous, slow kiss.
At the packed press conference following the movie Wednesday morning, Wong and his co-stars agreed that even when they were making the film, they knew the kiss was the film's key moment. For Jones, an acting neophyte who agreed to place her trust in Wong after she finished a concert tour and watched In the Mood for Love, Wong's idiosyncratic directing methods were all she knew. Law and the other actors, Rachel Weisz, David Straithairn and Natalie Portman, made the adjustment to constant improvising and last-minute changes. "The notes Kar Wai did give were more about the timing and the mood," Jones said. "We had most of our conversations about rhythm and pace," said Law. "It was almost as if you were tuning an instrument, we were different voices in a duet. I felt we were getting a sense of physicality of character."
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