Asian Cinema Collective presents: Happy Together (1997)

Join the Asian Cinema Collective for a special screening of Happy Together at Eclipse Cinema!

We're taking over the screens at Eclipse Cinema in October with a range of Queer Asian films, from new releases, to cult classics and community favourites.

About the film

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 and Leslie Cheung 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 LGBT community suddenly faced an uncertain future—Wong crafts a feverish look at the life cycle of a love affair that’s 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.

Film: Happy Together (1997)

Director: Wong Kar Wai

Rating: M

Run Time: 96 min

Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, and Spanish with English subtitles 

Tickets

ACC Members - $16

General Admission - $18