Happy Together

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Wong Kar Wai’s emotive and beautifully shot drama about a turbulent relationship makes the most of its Buenos Aires backdrop.

  • Director

    Wong Kar Wai

  • With

    Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Leslie Cheung

  • Hong Kong 1997. 96min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    15

  • Cantonese with English subtitles

This sumptuous film explores, with empathy and complexity, the dynamics of a queer relationship on the cusp of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, when the country’s LGBTQIA+ community faced an uncertain future. Wong Kar Wai and cinematographer Christopher Doyle craft a feverish portrait of a doomed love affair that traverses Buenos Aires and rural Argentina, to become one of the defining road movies and romances of the 1990s.

The screening of Happy Together on Wednesday 8 July will be introduced by curator and writer Ying-Di Yin.