Happy Together
- Original title
- Chun gwong tsa sit (Happy Together)aka
- AKA
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- Chun gwong cha sit
- Year
- 1997
- Running time
- 98 min.
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Romance. Drama | Gay & Lesbian. Friendship. Romantic Drama. Cult movie
- Synopsis
- Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1997: Cannes Film Festival: Best Director1997: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated to Best Foreign Film1997: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Cinematography.
- Critics' reviews
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"A fizzy chamber yarn about two gay Hong Kongers in Argentina"
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"Structurally and dramatically this is all over the place, but stylistically it's gripping"
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"An arresting work about an exotic subculture."
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"An abundance of style and an almost total lack of substance make Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together a visually arresting but ultimately unrewarding excursion."
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"Wong returns once more to what he seems to know best - the visual poetry of the urban Asian night, a world of characters on the move, coming and going, never really getting anywhere."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 22 My Favorite Chinese & Hong Kong Movies (26)
- 61 My Favorite Asian Movies (74)
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