With its plentiful use of hand-held camera, fast-cutting, and collage-like approach to storytelling, “Wild” has a fresh, risk-taking feel very different from the rigorous “Days,” even though its romantic undercurrent and quartet of urban dreamers are not far removed from the earlier pic. Wong made the moderately budgeted, HK$15m ($2 million) movie in only three months, between the end of shooting and start of post-production on his mammoth martial arts costumer “Ashes of Time,” already two years in the works. Hip pic, drenched in neo-’60s nostalgia, should delight cinephiles and prove an intriguing addition to the fest repertoire, though its appeal may prove too specialized for broad sales. Four years after his cult classic “Days of Being Wild,” Hong Kong maverick stylist Wong Kar-wai trampolines back with “Chung King Express,” a quicksilver magical mystery tour through the lives of a bunch of young downtown loners.
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