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His partnership with cinematographer Christopher Doyle has been another key to his success.
“You can see how Tony Leung can have a mediocre performance with some directors but with Wong Kar-wai, he is very different,” Lam said.
Beauty queen Cheung won the best actress award at Cannes in 2004 for her role as a junkie rock star in ex-husband Olivier Assayas’s “Clean.”
Actors, however, temper their praise of Wong with frustration over his methods. After it took five years to complete the futuristic love epic “2046,” which was shown at Cannes in 2004, star Leung described the process as torture.
Still, that has not put off multiple Grammy-award winner Norah Jones, who stars in “My Blueberry Nights,” and Hollywood heavyweight Nicole Kidman, who will appear in “The Lady From Shanghai.”
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