Screening times:
Saturday, March 22, 8:00 PM

Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | 1997 | 96m
Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish and English with English subtitles
with Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Chang Chen

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!

One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar-wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung 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 LGBT community suddenly faced an uncertain future—Wong crafts a feverish look at the life cycle of a love affair that’s 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.

"For all the simplicity of the narrative, 'Happy Together' is anything but slight. It's a moody, contemplative piece of work, and a vividly tactile one as well, lingering on food, smoke, bodies, blood, and water." - Jason Bailey, Vice

Winner: Best Director - Cannes Film Festival 1997
Winner: Best Cinematography - Golden Horse Awards 1997
Winner: Best Actor - Hong Kong Film Awards 1997
Winner: Audience Awards - Arizona International Film Festival 1997