With its sprung rhythms and pop sensibility, Wong Kar-wai's genuinely inspired pastiche of early Godard and late Hitchcock could be dismissed as another bit of stylishly pomo navel-gazing -- if it weren't so obviously
about something. This visually
electric film consists of two loosely connected but cleverly rhymed stanzas: Part One traces the intersecting paths of a lovelorn Hong Kong cop (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and a beautiful drug smuggler (HK superstar Brigitte Lin); Part Two is about a slightly cracked counter girl (Faye Wong) in romantic
pursuit of a second cop (Tony Leung Chiu-wai). It all takes place in and around Chungking House, a sprawling apartment c...
Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins