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20 lis 2023 · It’s perhaps this scene that best encapsulates the sense of sorrow and isolation felt in Wong Kar-Wai’s 1997 film “Happy Together,” one that tackles the toxic co-dependency between two gay men living in Argentina during the mid-’90s.
21 lip 2017 · Twenty years after it was first released, Happy Together is still the quintessential Chinese queer film, a dream of starting over at the end of the world. Emily Benita traces Yiu-fai and Po-wing’s acid neon steps and finds a love that transcends labels, identity and national boundaries, with lessons for today’s world.
19 wrz 2021 · Happy Together (1997), takes the same concept as many other Wong Kar-wai films, lifts them from their predominantly Hong Kong setting, and takes the story to Buenos Aires, Argentina. And another significant change, is that the two main protagonists are gay.
A poignant portrait of a relationship between two men uprooted from their home country, Happy Together explores the ups and downs, the pros and cons of commitment, as the lead characters careen and collide against each other with their discordant personalities acted out wonderfully. 7 out of 8 found this helpful.
I've been a big WKW fan for many years, seen these films many many times, & this is how I would rank the boxset titles too, just swapping ATGB & FA. 2046 is a haunting, expressionist remix & culmination of everything that came before.
23 cze 2022 · The film centers around their tumultuous, on-and-off relationship as they pull together and drift apart in an intoxicating game of power dynamics during their stay in Buenos Aires. Wong’s decision to set their story at the antipodes of their homeland was unheard of, yet hardly coincidental.
4 cze 2010 · Wong Kar-wai’s 1997 film is a mass of contradictions. It’s a movie mostly sour on love but filmed as though filtered through the vehement rush of a newfound romanticism. It’s both fragmented and cyclical.
