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WILL SLOAN From Volume XLIV, No. I, SEPTEMBER 2008. Excerpt: « I think the key shot of Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights comes very early on. Norah Jones is lying asleep in a Soho coffee shop, her head resting against the counter. Wong closes in for a lingering, soft-focus shot of her face. She is beautiful, and her beauty intoxicates Wong’s camera, but Wong makes a crucial decision: there is some vanilla from her latte on her upper lip and nose. Freeing Jones from her uber-famous public image, Wong’s camera invites us to appreciate her as not an international star, but a really beautiful human being. My Blueberry Nights, which is a very good Wong Kar Wai movie, is masterful in the almost subliminal way it evokes in its audience the feelings of love, longing, and melancholy experienced by its characters [...] » | 
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