Despite winning Best Director at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for Happy Together, director Wong Kar-wai has decidedly not made a follow-up worthy to the cinematic invention and wonder of the brilliant Chungking Express. Although the director employs the same French New Wave-style techniques showcased in his earlier work, and infuses the picture with a garish, saturated glow, the dreary story of two lovers who have traveled halfway around the world to Argentina only to break up and then make up and then break up again (and so on) very quickly wears out its welcome. Despite the directorial fireworks brought by its innovative director and a pair of solid performances from Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Happy Together is really no different from a slate of like-minded, late 20th century relationship movies.
Review of Happy Together
