Happy Together (1997)

Original title

春光乍洩

Directed by

Wong Kar-wai

Genre

drama film, romance film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 808 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two men from Hong Kong travel to Buenos Aires hoping to see Iguazu Falls. Their volatile relationship unravels in a series of fights and reconciliations as they struggle to find a way forward.

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What happens

Happy Together (Chinese: 春光乍洩) is a 1997 Hong Kong romantic drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai and starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai as a turbulent gay couple. The English title is inspired by the Turtles' 1967 song, which is covered by Danny Chung on the soundtrack. The Chinese title (previously used for Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup) is an idiomatic expression suggesting "the exposure of something intimate". A landmark of Hong Kong LGBT cinema, the film was regarded as one of the best LGBT films in the New Queer Cinema movement and received critical acclaim and screened at several film festivals such as the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival; it was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won Best Director at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. In 2022, Happy Together was ranked the 225th greatest film of all time in the Sight & Sound critics' poll. In 2016, the film was ranked the 3rd greatest LGBT film of all time in the British Film Institute poll. In 2018, it was ranked the 71st greatest foreign-language film of all time in the BBC poll. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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