Happy together = Chun gwong cha sit

Author

Kar-wai Wong

Call Number

• BLU-RAY FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Blu-ray version.

Languages

In Cantonese, Mandarin and Spanish, with English subtitles.

Performers

Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Chen Chang.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (96 minutes) : sound, color, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

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 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.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.

This disc was released as part of the Criterion Collection box set World of Wong Kar Wai.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Wong Kar Wai.