CHUNGKING EXPRESS

Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia, Takeshi Kaneshiro

Miramax Films; Directed by Wong Kar-Wai

Rated PG-13; 103 minutes; 1996

, VHS

From popular Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai comes an excellent two-segmented pop culture romance that takes a detailed peek at the flashy yet gentle lives of two proud policemen who, after being dumped by their girlfriends, fall for a heroin dealer and a counter girl.

In Cantonese with English subtitles

 

REVIEWS

"A delicious romance."

- Richard Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE

"A knockout—terrifically stylish. Hong Kong is the perfect setting for a film with style to burn."

- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES

"As playfully kinetic as it is utterly unclassificable. Manic, cool and fantastically cosmopolitan, it is the season’s headiest draft of cinephilia."

- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE

"A lyric marvel. A JULES AND JIM for our time."

- Georgia Brown

"A genuine wonder, intoxicating from its first frame to last. A film about time, serendipity, the hard shimmer of night and the erotics of camera work."

- Manohla Dargis, LA WEEKLY

 

ONE SHEET LINER

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