Happy Together

5.00
    Happy Together
    1997

    Synopsis

    A gay couple from Hong Kong takes a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning but instead begins drifting even further apart.

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    Cast

    • Tony Leung Chiu-waiLai Yiu-fai
    • Leslie CheungHo Po-wing
    • Chang ChenChang
    • Gregory DaytonLover

    Recommendations

    • 100

      San Francisco Chronicle

      Loose, buoyant and bracingly original.
    • 89

      Austin Chronicle

      Thanks largely to the raw bravery and intensity of the two leads' performances, Happy Together takes a quantum leap forward in terms of visceral power.
    • 88

      San Francisco Examiner

      Happy Together is Wong's most fully realized work. It is a pleasure to watch an interesting mind feel his way, and the result is something more than just a passing fancy.
    • 80

      The New York Times

      Stylistically brash, pulsing with life.
    • 75

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      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. [5 Dec 1997]
    • 70

      Chicago Reader

      Structurally and dramatically this is all over the place, but stylistically it's gripping, and thematically it suggests an oblique response to the end of Hong Kong's colonial rule.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      The vignettes don't add up to a story, but Wong's nervy brio and subterranean-fantasy style make for an arresting work about an exotic subculture.
    • 50

      Christian Science Monitor

      Wong Kar-Wai, whose energetic and inventive style isn't enough to give the shallow story the substance and resonance it needs.

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