Happy Together (1997)
春光乍洩
A gay couple takes a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead begins drifting even further apart.
Romance, longing, heartbreak and joy — the most beautiful love stories featuring LGBTQ+ couples. From period pieces to contemporary romances, these films prove that love has always existed in every form. Essential queer cinema for the heart.
Time moves strangely in Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong. Neon-lit corridors, missed connections, Tony Leung's face, Faye Wong blasting "California Dreamin'" out of a snack bar. This flock collects the complete WKW filmography — from the blurry-lens yearning of Days of Being Wild to the martial arts reverie of The Grandmaster — and the adjacent Hong Kong New Wave work that shares that particular ache. Longing as a cinematic language. Heartbreak as a visual style.
From Wong Kar-wai's Buenos Aires to Park Chan-wook's colonial Korea, queer desire in Asian cinema often arrives oblique, repressed, devastating, gorgeous. Farewell My Concubine's doomed love across decades of upheaval. Happy Together's toxic tango 18,000 km from home. The Handmaiden's electric, layered con game. Tropical Malady's mythic dissolution into the jungle. This flock is the canon — and a very good argument that Asian cinema does queer storytelling better than almost anyone.
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The poster alone deserves an award. Two men in a soft, blurred embrace — one in a warm plaid flannel, the other in a teal top — shot like a memory already dissolving, the focus dreamlike and aching. That's this entire film: love that can't hold its own shape. Wong Kar-wai is a god among directors and this may be his most heartbreaking work. Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung trapped together in Buenos Aires, loving each other in the most destructive ways possible. The Argentine tango music, the saturated color palette, the loneliness of a foreign city. My heart still hasn't recovered and I first saw this YEARS ago.