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Nov 20, 2023 · It’s perhaps this scene that best encapsulates the sense of sorrow and isolation felt in Wong Kar-Wai’s 1997 film “Happy Together,” one that tackles the toxic co-dependency between two gay men living in Argentina during the mid-’90s.
Interestingly, despite being regarded as one of the best LGBTQ films in the “New Queer Cinema” movement of the 90s, Wong himself doesn’t consider Happy Together as a gay film. “I don’t like people to see this film as a gay film,” Wong said to Cineaction Toronto in 1998 .
This paper examines Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai’s 1997 romantic drama Happy Together and argues that a reading of the film as a national allegory for Hong Kong’s postcolonial status must include an emphasis on the homophobic and patriarchal forces acting upon the queer body.
- Ryan Kerr
The two counterpunching lovers in Wong Kar-Wai’s beloved gay downer Happy Together (1997) – Lai Yiu-Fai (played by Wong-regular Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) and Ho Po-Wing (played by the late Cantopop chanteur and film star Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing) – appear happiest when one or the other is sleeping.
This paper is interested in the cinematic apparatus’s potential to produce affect which defamiliarises the visible presence of star-bodies in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together (chunguang zhaxie, 1997), thus invoking non-normative and new modes of thinking about queer identification and representation.
- Jiaying Sim
- 2021
Feb 16, 2021 · The centrepiece of Wong Kar-wai's melancholy drama Happy Together is a raw depiction of gay romance, but it speaks to the filmmaker's wider fascination with Hong Kong migrant cinema, finds Ian Wang. Ian Wang Published 1:41pm 16 February 2021. Wong Kar-wai’s films are always crossing borders.
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May 17, 2022 · Starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung as gay lovers, Happy Together was a Hong Kong story set in Argentina, Wong said – even the dangerous Buenos Aires location felt like Mong Kok.
