Cover Photo: Art by Isabelle Laureta for Catapult
Art by Isabelle Laureta for Catapult

What Wong Kar-wai’s Films Meant to Young Asians in America

Wong Kar-wai’s films showed me how to navigate that liminal space between tenderness and loneliness, connection and alienation, East and West.

In the Mood for Love,

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Chungking Express Fallen Angels

own life

Slurp!

Pierrot le Fou

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Please, let this be over

My Blueberry Nights

real cinema

Fallen Angels

In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love

Sophie is a writer from Los Angeles. She is currently an MFA candidate at Washington University in St. Louis, where she studies creative nonfiction.