Chun gwong cha sit (1997)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.6/10   

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Guionista:

Kar Wai Wong (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

29 abril 1997 (Italy)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift...

Plot Keywords:

Argentina | Tango | Gay Asian | Homosexuality | Gay

Premios:

6 wins & 12 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Brilliant & Touching Story of loneliness & dislocation

Reparto

Leslie Cheung	...	Ho Po-wing
Tony Leung Chiu Wai	...	Lai Yiu-fai
Chen Chang	...	Chang
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Gregory Dayton	...	Lover
Shirley Kwan	...	(scenes cut)

También conocida como:

Happy Together (Hong Kong: English title) (USA)
Buenos Aires Affair (International: English title)
Chun guang zha xie (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Happy
Happy Together (Spain) [es]

Duración:

96 min

País:

Hong Kong

Idioma:

Mandarin | Cantonés | Español

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Netherlands:12 | Iceland:12 | Italy:VM18 | New Zealand:R18 | France:U | Philippines:R-18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:III | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:(Banned) (original rating) | Singapore:R(A) (re-rating on appeal) | South Korea:(Banned) (original rating) | South Korea:18 (re-rating) (cut) | Spain:18 | UK:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina

Compañía:

Block 2 Pictures

Trivialidades:

Tony Leung Chiu Wai agreed to do the film on the basis of a fake script and only learned of the requirement of doing a gay sex scene after arriving in Argentina for filming.

Errores:

Continuidad: Before Fai push starts the old car, the engine has already started while it is standing still.

Citas:

Ho Po-wing: Do you regret being with me?
Lai Yiu-fai: Damn right I do! I had no regrets until I met you. Now my regrets could kill me.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Fa yeung nin wa (2000)

Banda de Sonido:

3 Amigos

Brilliant & Touching Story of loneliness & dislocation

I didn't think so the first time I saw HAPPY TOGETHER, but I really think this film is a masterpiece. Technically it's amazing - the hand-held camera-work is incredible, and the mindbending shifts from saturated colors to monochrome (which I first felt was a stylish stunt) really underscores the loneliness and alienation of the characters brilliantly - the overall effect by the films' end is devastating.

HAPPY TOGETHER was apparently also - at least partially - inspired by the Argentine novelist Manuel Puig, author of 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman' among many other novels, and Puig's fiction tackles similar issues in a similarly fractured style (filled with footnotes, digressions and sudden shifts in perspective), all to incredibly powerful emotional effect.

If HAPPY TOGETHER is something of an homage to Puig, it's a great one. On it's own it's also a devastating portrait of a disintegrating relationship.