A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.
Director:
Kar-Wai Wong (as Kar Wai Wong)Writer:
Kar-Wai Wong (as Kar Wai Wong)
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Leslie Cheung | ... | Ho Po-wing | |
| Tony Chiu-Wai Leung | ... | Lai Yiu-fai (as Tony Chiu Wai Leung) | |
| Chen Chang | ... | Chang | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Gregory Dayton | ... | Lover |
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Shirley Kwan | ... | (scenes cut) |
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Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast. Written by Perry Yu <perry@pobox.com>
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loneliness | happiness | salsa music | gay couple | internal monologue |Certificate:
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Release Date:
30 May 1997 (Hong Kong) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$153,096, 14 November 1997Gross USA:
$187,508, 23 November 1997Company Credits
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Tony Chiu-Wai Leung agreed to do the film on the basis of a fake script. He only learned of the requirement of doing a gay sex scene after arriving in Argentina for filming. See more »Goofs
Before Fai push starts the old car, the engine has already started while it is standing still. See more »Quotes
Lai Yiu-fai: I didn't see Chang, but I saw his family. I finally understood how he could be happy running around so free. It's because he has a place he can always return to.See more »
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I didn't think so the first time I saw HAPPY TOGETHER, but I really think this film is a masterpiece. Technically it's amazing - the hand-held camera-work is incredible, and the mindbending shifts from saturated colors to monochrome (which I first felt was a stylish stunt) really underscores the loneliness and alienation of the characters brilliantly - the overall effect by the films' end is devastating.
HAPPY TOGETHER was apparently also - at least partially - inspired by the Argentine novelist Manuel Puig, author of 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman' among many other novels, and Puig's fiction tackles similar issues in a similarly fractured style (filled with footnotes, digressions and sudden shifts in perspective), all to incredibly powerful emotional effect.
If HAPPY TOGETHER is something of an homage to Puig, it's a great one. On it's own it's also a devastating portrait of a disintegrating relationship.