Trailer
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Happy Together

Runtime
1hr 36mins
Directed by
Wong Kar-wai
Featuring
Leslie Cheung,
Tony Leung Chiu Wai,
Chen Chang
Film Language
in Cantonese with English subtitles
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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.

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