Happy Together
Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs the strange, intimate drama Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit (Happy Together). Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle employed multiple film speeds and different color film stock during the shooting. Ho (Leslie Cheung) and Lai (Tony Leung) are lovers from Hong Kong who have run away to live in Buenas Aires, Argentina. However, Ho is immature and unwilling to settle down, which makes Lai depressed. When they break up, Lai works as a doorman in a tango bar in order to save money and go home. The restless Ho becomes a prostitute. After Ho is beaten and injured in an attack, Lai takes him to his apartment to recover. Ho tries to rekindle the romance, but Lai isn't interested. He leaves the tango bar and works in a kitchen, where he meets the young Chang (Chang Chen) from Taiwan.
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Chang Chen
Loose, buoyant and bracingly original.
The result is a take-no-prisoners movie from one of Hong Kong's most idiosyncratic, shoot-from-the-hip filmmakers that's the very antithesis of sentimental gay love stories.
Thanks largely to the raw bravery and intensity of the two leads' performances, Happy Together takes a quantum leap forward in terms of visceral power.
Stylistically brash, pulsing with life.
Style oozing from virtually every frame.
Most Popular Foreign Film
Arizona International Film Festival (1998)
Kar Wai Wong
Cannes Film Festival (1997)
Best Actor
Golden Bauhinia Awards (1998)
Best Cinematography
Golden Horse Film Festival (1997)
Best Actor
Hong Kong Film Awards (1998)
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