Chungking Express

Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Chung Hing sam lam
Date: January 01, 1994, December 31, 1994
Dates Note: 1994
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Place of Origin: Hong Kong
Languages: Cantonese
Color: Color
Silent: No
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Film Series/Exhibition Title: 
Streaming—Existence Is Longing: Wong Kar Wai
Description: 

Frustrated with the slow filming of his martial arts epic Ashes of Time, Wong Kar Wai promised funders a film about “two cops” and pounded out a contemporary quickie that would come to define 1990s Hong Kong cinema. Section one involves a blonde-bewigged female smuggler (Brigitte Lin) and a smitten beat cop (Takeshi Kaneshiro); in section two, another police officer (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) falls under the sway of food vendor Faye Wong and her constant “California Dreamin’.” Funders got their cop movie; international viewers received a mesmerizing jolt of Hong Kong’s energy, romance, and style, framed by Christopher Doyle’s lyrically kinetic cinematography.

Authors/Roles: 
Jason Sanders

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