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Chungking Express

Chungking Express

Chung Hing sam lam

Wong Kar-wai


  • Country: Hong Kong
  • Year: 1994
  • Language: Cantonese
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  • Runtime: 102 min.

A visually dazzling and endlessly rich fusion of offbeat romantic comedy and coolly postmodern reverie, acclaimed Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express has become a signature film of millennial cinema, an announcement of the transfigurations the medium would undergo as it entered a new century.

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A visually dazzling and endlessly rich fusion of offbeat romantic comedy and coolly postmodern reverie, acclaimed Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express has become a signature film of millennial cinema, an announcement of the transfigurations the medium would undergo as it entered a new century. Combining parallel, inverted stories of unrequited love involving two unnamed cops—Officer 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro), who pursues a mysterious, be-wigged criminal (Brigitte Lin), and Officer 663 (Tony Leung), pursued by a spunky noodle stand vendor (Faye Wong)—Wong Kar-wai and his master cinematographers Christopher Doyle and Lau Wai Keung transform Hong Kong into a woozy array of sublime neons and entropic slow-motion, a dizzying dance of disorientation and displacement. Rushed to completion in just under two months during the protracted shooting of the director's swordplay epic Ashes of Time, Chungking Express has become a remarkably influential cinematic dispatch on life in contemporary urban space: its anomie, its loneliness, its pure silliness and its breathless speed.

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