Happy Together

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Kar Wai, Wong, film director.

Chen, Chang, actor.

Cheung Kwok Wing, Leslie, actor.

Leung Chiu Wai, Tony, actor.

The Criterion Collection (Firm), Distributor.

Kanopy (Firm)., Distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer cinema.

Spirituality.

Foreign films.

Drama.

Motion pictures.

Romance.

Genre:

Feature films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Place of Publication:

The Criterion Collection 1997

[San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2022

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

digital

video file MPEG-4 Flash

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

Participant:

Chang Chen, Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing, Tony Leung Chiu Wai

Notes:

Title from title frames

Film

In Process Record

Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1997

OCLC:

1293991947

Publisher Number:

12814070 Kanopy

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license