CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1994)

A sense of wistful, romantic longing joins the two stories in Wong Kar Wai’s freewheeling portmanteau portrait of Hong Kong.

“It is a play-pretend, a highly stylised exercise in heartache that is still profound and heartbreaking.” Elena Smolina

“Entirely made of odd little moments of redemption and reconnection amid a city full of danger and light. Blurred colours and rapid bodies together and apart, perversity and compassion alongside each other, pop songs echoing through mindscapes; this is Wong’s most singular film.” Ryan Swen

“Tony Leung’s face is cinema.” Anna Bogutskaya

1994 Hong Kong
Directed by
Wong Kar Wai
Produced by
Chan Yi-kan
Written by
Wong Kar Wai
Featuring
Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Running time
97 minutes