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The expressionistic, stylized visual brilliance (courtesy of Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle) of Happy Together is so breathtaking and enveloping it nearly detracts from this startling, queasy, despairing glimpse at a gay relationship gone amok. Director Wong Kar-Wai (Chungking Express, Fallen Angels) won the Best Director Prize at Cannes in 1997--surprising many--but on viewing the film it's easy to see why. The subject matter may not be the easiest to swallow--any relationship on the rocks sometimes gets dirty and pathetically disturbing--but there is a universality to Happy Together that rings true and real and less like an edition of The Honeymooners than isolation tinged with the embarrassment of intimacy. Ho (Leslie Cheung) and Lai (Tony Leung) have left Hong Kong for Buenos Aires. The journey is another in Ho's attempts to "start over." But their initial optimism is short-lived, and once they become dislocated strangers in this strange land it only further thrusts the two into their already codependent, caretaking dark love affair. But like all crazy love, the trip through masochistic hell--from violence to apathy--leads to self-enlightenment, and Wong Kar-Wai's gorgeous, grasping film is true, tricky, difficult, and emotionally wrought, aided by Hong Kong superstars Cheung and Leung, who contribute greatly to creating a work that is exceptional--and lump-in-throat brutal--in image, story, and performance. --Paula Nechak

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5.0 out of 5 stars Personified co-dependency..., Dec 13 2002

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Kim Anehall "www.cinematica.org" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Happy Together (Widescreen) (DVD)

Another remarkable story by Kar-wai Wong that depicts two men on a trip to Argentina where they get stranded due to financial difficulties and their turbulent relationship. In their relationship they have acquired a certain dependency upon each other, which seems to be emotionally, financially, and physically draining on them both. Despite this abusive relationship, their co-dependency forces them back together and the circle seems to be sealed forever, until one of men meets another man who has the ability to listen. Happy Together is a film about everything in a relationship except being happy together, which provides an emotionally apprehensive cinematic experience that can be compared to Ingmar Bergman's pictures.

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5.0 out of 5 stars ABSOLUTELY GOOD!, Oct 7 2010

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MS TONG ZHOU (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Happy Together [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

I LOVE THIS MOVIE.

ONE OF THE BEST OF LESLIE CHEUNG, AND ONE OF THE BEST OF WONG KAI WAI.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO IS LESLIE CHEUNG, GOOGLE HIM. HE IS THE LEGEND OF CHINESE MOVIE AND MUSIC HISTORY.

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3.0 out of 5 stars watchable travalogue, love story, human portrayal of gay men, April 11 2004

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This review is from: Happy Together (Widescreen) (DVD)

My wife and I got different things from this movie, but we both
enjoyed it enough to be worth the time.

What struck me most vividly was the idea of just bravely taking
off to another country on little enough of a plan that running
out of money and being forced to survive like they do is even a
possibility. I don't know if that speaks more for the main
characters' love of life, or just their incompetence, but for me
it was a vividly portrayed and compelling case for the value of
the former. This might not have been a focus of the movie, and
I'm sure that for many people the grim conditions if anything
make the opposite case, but it really made me want to seize the
day, take off on a motorcycle and so on.

I think my wife was more affected by the love story. She grew up
in China with a moderately negative but mostly non-existent
awareness of homosexuality. Her reaction at the end of this
movie was that now she could much better understand the idea of
two men actually being in love with each other, just like anybody
else. I figure I got my money's worth just for that.

Now, as her husband, I do find it a little bit disturbing that
she finds such a screwed-up relationship so easy to relate to,
but it speaks well for the movie as tolerance propaganda.

The visual style didn't particularly speak to me. It was
occasionally intrusive, occasionally neat to look at, every once
in a while participated in the story-telling, and mostly I just
ignored it.

I spent much of the first half of the movie complaining to
myself that the director gives us no clue at all why these two
would want to be together, let alone as obsessively as they are.
Eventually, I accepted that the director's not incompetent, so if
he's not letting us know it's because he doesn't want to. Okay,
Kar-wai, whatever, man. I got along much better after I gave up
on that.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not in the Mood
This movie tries to present deep, complex and intriguing characters but that pretension ends up delivering a flat, tedious and emotionally empty story. Read more

Published on Feb 11 2004 by gonn1000

3.0 out of 5 stars murky disappointment
Having seen three of Wong Kar-Wai's films (Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, In the Mood for Love), I have become a big fan, and was eagerly looking forward to this one, the last... Read more

Published on Sep 15 2003 by avoraciousreader