Wong Kar-Wai film about a homosexual couple stranded in Argentina wavers for a long time before actually finding out what story it wants to tell. Soaked in Sepia-filters, Wong Kar-Wai runs in circles, always shooting the same tiresome scenes in their little apartment in different variations, without finding a way out of his quite messy build-up. Films about toxic relationships aren't easy to make: the director has to walk the thin red line between making it believable and making it watchable. Here, the director is a bit too much in love with his blurry visuals, the almost drunken camera, endlessly turning around the two fighting lovers.
As soon as the film reaches the point where you start to wish for the actual story to start, Wong Kar-Wai grants you exactly that wish: the lovers separate, and the camera follows the protagonist as he tries to heal from a broken heart, but also from the damage the relationship has caused. Driven by lust as well as loneliness, we follow him as he wanders the benighted streets of Buenos Aires, searching sexual satisfaction but also searching - and finding - new friends.
After sitting through the first 30-40 minutes of the film, Happy Together rewards you with poetic scenes of incredible beauty, portraying a desire to be loved on screen that will assuredly resonate with you, regardless of whether you've lived something similar or not.
The film's last half hour will leave you in awe as the protagonist's mind wanders, missing home and wondering what Hong-Kong might look like upside down in one of the most original scenes of Asian cinema. The last scene eventually fully compensates the messy start.
As soon as the film reaches the point where you start to wish for the actual story to start, Wong Kar-Wai grants you exactly that wish: the lovers separate, and the camera follows the protagonist as he tries to heal from a broken heart, but also from the damage the relationship has caused. Driven by lust as well as loneliness, we follow him as he wanders the benighted streets of Buenos Aires, searching sexual satisfaction but also searching - and finding - new friends.
After sitting through the first 30-40 minutes of the film, Happy Together rewards you with poetic scenes of incredible beauty, portraying a desire to be loved on screen that will assuredly resonate with you, regardless of whether you've lived something similar or not.
The film's last half hour will leave you in awe as the protagonist's mind wanders, missing home and wondering what Hong-Kong might look like upside down in one of the most original scenes of Asian cinema. The last scene eventually fully compensates the messy start.