Style oozing from virtually every frame, this bittersweet love story from terminally chic Hong Kong
auteur du jour Wong Kar-wai may be a little
too cool for its own good. Lai (Tony Leung) and his lover Ho (Leslie Cheung) try to save their
foundering relationship by making a fresh start in Argentina. But after a roadside spat, Ho takes off in a huff and Lai gets a job at a Buenos Aires tango bar. Ho shows up regularly, draped on the arms of various johns, until the night he arrives, badly beaten, at Lai's squalid flat. Lai nurses Ho
back to health, but steals his passport -- just in case. Another fresh start, or love's slow death? This is a far more i...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
97 mins