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Happy Together

Happy Together

classified 15 S Sold Out

The World of Wong Kar Wai

Film

Please note: This was screened in Aug 2021

Director
Wong Kar-Wai
Cast
Leslie Cheung, Kwok-Wing, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Details
97 mins, Subtitled, 1997, Hong Kong Japan South Korea
Primary language
Mandarin

One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylised portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing as a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they break up, make up, and fall apart again and again.

Setting out to depict the dynamics of a queer relationship with empathy and complexity on the cusp of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong—when the country’s LGBTQ community suddenly faced an uncertain future—Wong crafts a feverish look at the life cycle of a love affair that is by turns devastating and deliriously romantic. Shot by ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle in both luminous monochrome and luscious saturated color, Happy Together is an intoxicating exploration of displacement and desire that swoons with the ache and exhilaration of love at its heart-tearing extremes.

Happy Together has been completely restored. Unfortunately, some of the original negative was lost in a fire in 2019. Some parts of scenes had been lost and as a consequence some of Tony Leung's monologues had to be shortened.


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