Happy Together
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The Grandmaster: Tony Leung
April 29 - May 7
Tony Leung is a homesick Hong Kong exile in Buenos Aires locked in an on-again/off-again spiral of passion, jealousy, and “starting over” with the mercurial Leslie Cheung in Wong Kar Wai’s lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown.
One of Tony Leung’s most vulnerable performances anchors Wong Kar Wai’s raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown. He plays Lai Yiu-fai, a homesick Hong Kong exile in Buenos Aires, locked in an on-again/off-again spiral of passion, jealousy, and “starting over” with the mercurial Ho Po-wing (Leslie Cheung). Lai moves from tango bars to kitchen shifts and, in a heartbreaking stretch, nurses Ho back to health with quiet, wounded steadiness. Capturing 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 portrays the cycle of a love affair that is by turns devastating and delirious. Shot by Christopher Doyle in both luminous monochrome and saturated color, Happy Together is an intoxicating exploration of displacement and desire. An NYFF35 selection.
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