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Writers:
Michelangelo Antonioni (book) (segment "The Dangerous Thread of Things")
Michelangelo Antonioni (story) (segment "The Dangerous Thread of Things")
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Release Date:
3 December 2004 (Italy) more
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Three visionary directors. One erotic journey.
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Three short films -- one each from directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh and Wong Kar Wai -- address the themes of love and sex. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Li Gong ... Miss Hua (segment "The Hand")
Chen Chang ... Zhang (segment "The Hand")
Feng Tien ... Master Jin (segment "The Hand") (as Tin Fung)
Luk Auntie ... Hua's Servant - Ying (segment "The Hand") (as Auntin Luk)
Jianjun Zhou ... Hua's Lover - Zhao (segment "The Hand")
Wing Tong Sheung ... Tailor (segment "The Hand")
Kim Tak Wong ... Tailor (segment "The Hand")
Siu Man Ting ... Tailor (segment "The Hand")
Lai Fu Yim ... Tailor (segment "The Hand")
Cheng You Shin ... Tailor (segment "The Hand")
Wing Kong Siu ... Tailor (segment "The Hand")
Kar Fai Lee ... Tailor (segment "The Hand")
Chi Keong Un ... Hotel Concierge (segment "The Hand")

Robert Downey Jr. ... Nick Penrose (segment "Equilibrium")

Alan Arkin ... Dr. Pearl / Hal (segment "Equilibrium")
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Also Known As:
Eros (France)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong sexual content including graphic nudity, and for language.
Runtime:
104 min | Argentina:108 min
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7 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
The Tale Tail And Wong Kar-Wai, 20 December 2007
Author: madalina_roca from Romania

Antonioni is not able to direct a 30 min film. Why? The Dangerous Thread of Things deals with a couple trapped in a plain, tasteless life that are no longer able to observe, to feel, to digest the little, happy, natural elements of their lives.What Antonioni wants to show here is that women are passionate, wild , instinctual. Their nudity is not erotic, it's a kind of natural nudity, the original nudity of people lacking shame.Dancing naked on the beach is a kind of Dyonisiac ritual Nietzsche was talking about, the primitive, joyful way of celebrating life. The ideas are nice, he tried to do something great , but he didn't manage because there was not enough time to construct the characters, to make them mean something so by the end of the film we are left with a feeling of dizziness.On the other hand, i didn't like Soderbergh's segment at all maybe because i didn't understand it or maybe I'm trying to get in deep where there is only the surface.

Anyway, Kar-Wai's segment was the best of all three, absolutely wonderful. The story is rather sad(all Kar Wai's characters are melancholic) but the way he works with the camera and the music perfectly combined with the images proves what a great director he is. The scene in which the weaving of the dress is associated with lust, with the wish to penetrate both the mind and the woman's body, well that's Eros, that's how eroticism should be introduced in cinema. Kar Wai proves to be a great tale-or again.

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