Screening times:
Saturday, March 15, 8:00 PM

Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | 1995 | 99m
Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles
with Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung and Karen Mok

This screening is part of our Wong Kar-wai Weekends series on Saturday nights in March. In anticipation of the newly remastered and extended classic In The Mood for Love currently in Chinese theatres (and the new television series Blossoms Shanghai), we present some other classic titles from the Hong Kong auteur!

Lost souls reach out for human connection amidst the glimmering night world of Hong Kong in Wong Kar-wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne.

Originally conceived as a segment of Chungking Express only to spin off on its own woozy axis, this hyper-cool head rush plays like the dark, moody flip side to Wong’s breakout feature as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hitman (Leon Lai) looking to go straight, his business partner (Michelle Reis) who secretly yearns for him, and a mute delinquent (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who wreaks mischief by night.

Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, Fallen Angels is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.

"It’s kind of exhausting and kind of exhilarating. It will appeal to the kinds of people you see in the Japanese animation section of the video store, with their sleeves cut off so you can see their tattoos. And to those who subscribe to more than three film magazines. And to members of garage bands. And to art students." - Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com

Winner: Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography - Hong Kong Film Awards 1996
Winner: Best Film Editing - Golden Horse Awards 1996