Fallen Angels

Crackling with inspiration and bursting with ideas, Wong Kar-wai's dazzling follow-up to CHUNGKING EXPRESS is one of those rare films that manages to feel as fresh and exciting as anything that's come before it. In the garishly lit late-night world of Hong Kong, the lives of four lonely people briefly intersect: Wong Chi-Ming (Leon Lai), a jaded hit man who wants out of his dangerous, solitary business but is leery of emotional involvement; the Agent (Michele Reis), the beautiful partner-in-crime he's never met (like everyone else in the film, they communicate primarily by phone), but who's fallen in love with Chi-Ming anyway; Baby (Karen Mok), a bleach-blonde, ni...