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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305592686
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305592683
Label: Kino Video
Languages: Mandarin ChineseOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Kino Video
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1997
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The expressionistic, stylized visual brilliance (courtesy of Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle) of Happy Together is so breathtaking and enveloping it nearly detracts from this startling, queasy, despairing glimpse at a gay relationship gone amok. Director Wong Kar-Wai (Chungking Express, Fallen Angels) won the Best Director Prize at Cannes in 1997--surprising many--but on viewing the film it's easy to see why. The subject matter may not be the easiest to swallow--any relationship on the rocks sometimes gets dirty and pathetically disturbing--but there is a universality to Happy Together that rings true and real and less like an edition of The Honeymooners than isolation tinged with the embarrassment of intimacy. Ho (Leslie Cheung) and Lai (Tony Leung) have left Hong Kong for Buenos Aires. The journey is another in Ho's attempts to "start over." But their initial optimism is short-lived, and once they become dislocated strangers in this strange land it only further thrusts the two into their already codependent, caretaking dark love affair. But like all crazy love, the trip through masochistic hell--from violence to apathy--leads to self-enlightenment, and Wong Kar-Wai's gorgeous, grasping film is true, tricky, difficult, and emotionally wrought, aided by Hong Kong superstars Cheung and Leung, who contribute greatly to creating a work that is exceptional--and lump-in-throat brutal--in image, story, and performance. --Paula Nechak
Description:
A stunning display of filmmaking style and a fascinating love story evenly mixed into one film. Winner of the Best Director prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Wong Kar-Wai's "Happy Together" stars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung as gay lovers living out the waning days of their relationship in this dazzlingly distinctive film.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Happy together was the first well-known film of Wong Kar-Wai. After that one came "In the mood of love", "2046", My blueberry nights and others... This splendid film was the tenth movie of the author but the first big successful work of Wong in western countries. The movie is a gripping tale of homosexual love. It's an exercise of striking visual virtuosity and unequivocal postmodern affiliation. The story itself and the way of filming are strange and captivating. Iguazu's falls scene with Caetano ... Read More
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i watched this film many years ago, and had recently seen it again with new eyes-- so to speak. it is a great film; artistic, exotic and intoxicating. the colors are great; moody, and on point with the story. i love the way the director (wong kar-wai) has weaved these colors into a present character in the film.
it is very exotic in the sense that it tells the story that should be strange but is the everyday. here is a couple that is a true opposites; one hoping for a normal life, the ... Read More
Rating:  -
As a gay Asian man, I always anticipate a gay Asian film that steers away from the cliche subjects of pimps and hustlers and young men involved with older men for purely economic reasons. It's refreshing that the two lovers in "Happy Together" are supposed to be involved with each other for love. The problem with "Happy Together" is that their love is never depicted. For the duration of the film, the viewer is presented with a melange of arguments, fights, and temporary separations that ultimately ... Read More
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Viewing this film was like watching the Tango! Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung were absolutely mesmerizing as lovers who exist in a state of conflict, constantly estranged from their homeland, their loved-ones and each other. The ending was heartrending (no surprise), but I found the interaction between the couple to be pure comedy. The situations that each character found himself in were anything but funny, however, the ups and downs in their relationship were so realistic that I couldn't help but laugh ... Read More
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I will not review the plot, as others have already adequately described it.
This film is in one respect something of a throwback to 60's gay films, where any two men in love had to be portrayed as constantly tearing each other to pieces. Needless to say, this is not true to life, and is also implicitly homophobic.
However, oddly enough, this movie ALSO provides one of the most realistic, convincing descriptions of gay love ever filmed. The two leads, when they are not fighting, ... Read More
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