After ‘Silent Friend,’ Tony Leung Now Sees Plants as ‘Sentient Beings,’ the Same as Human Beings

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Leung plays a neuroscientist studying the electromagnetic activity inside a gingko tree in Ildikó Enyedi's tender, mystical mind-bender; he and his filmmaker talk to IndieWire about their intentions with Leung's first European movie. Hong Kong icon Tony Leung has channeled brooding urban energy for the masterpieces of Wong Kar-Wai, balancing the debonair ennui of Marcello Mastroianni with the quiet watchfulness of Montgomery Clift. In one of the few films he’s made outside Asia and in his first