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Happy Together
Title
Happy Together.
Publication
The Criterion Collection, 1997.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Title from title frames.
Film
Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1997.
In English
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
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.
Variant and related titles
Kanopy Criterion collection.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 15, 2023
Performers
Chang Chen, Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Publisher's number
12814070 Kanopy
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Also listed under
The Criterion Collection (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm),
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