Chungking Express
Details
Chungking Express
- Directed by: Wong Kar Wai
- Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung, Faye Wong
- Language: Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles
- Year: 1994
- Duration: 102min
Book your ticket online to make sure you have a seat:
https://www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/chungking-express-0
Trailer: https://youtu.be/OPCug9jyG9k
We'll meet in the lobby just before the film (I will post a message on how to recognize me). After the film we'll have a drink/snack in the café and chat about it.
Summary:
The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops, both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye works. The film cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas and the Papas’ California Dreamin’ into tokens of romantic longing.