I saw this movie last night and wept. I am yet to digest it in any reasonable fashion to write about it - why? - because there are certain movies which seem to encapsulate certain essential motifs of one's life in such a shockingly precise manner that it is hard to write about them without reprising all of one's experiences, memories, and yes regrets. So here is a sequence of YouTube clips that will give you a taste of Wong Kar-Wai's visual magic in this stunner of a movie:



"Love is a matter of timing. It is no good meeting the right person... too soon or too late."