World of Wong Kar-Wai: Happy Together

Playing in 4k — and on the Somerville's 4k projector — as part of our World of Wong Kar-Wai series!

Winner: Best Director, 1997 Cannes Film Festival

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 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.

You may also like the following events from Independent Film Festival Boston:

• This Tuesday, 29th July, 07:30 pm, Screening Series: Architecton in Brookline
• Next month, 12th August, 07:30 pm, World of Wong Kar-Wai: As Tears Go By in Somerville
• Next month, 14th August, 07:30 pm, World of Wong Kar-Wai: Days of Being Wild in Somerville

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