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
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