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	happy together reviews
		The film shows the failed relationship between Fai and Po-wing, the audience is brought in to view the deviated tendencies of their relationship and invited to see the final days of the relationships existence.
		Kar-wai Wong's film, Happy Together, epitomizes the confused notion of cultural identity as it manifests in Hong Kong.
		Contrary to the film's title, the two seem to be the exact opposite of ‘happy together.’ The two men, Lai Yiu-fai and Ho Po-wing, begin having problems in their relationship and break up within the opening scenes of the film.
	www.wooster.edu /chinese/Chinese/reviews/happytogether.html (5763 words)

	Reviews and Reflections: Happy Together (Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit), directed by Kar-wai Wong, with Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung ...
		Films are an assemblage of shots and sequences.
		Camera shots are filmed in a variety of color schemes: fl and white, several different tonalities of near fl and white, color, and several versions of beyond color.
		However, here they are done together and with such excellence that the result is a film that has the feeling of creating a new style, a new kind of poetry.
	www.wpcmath.com /films/happytogether/happytogether2.html (1010 words)

	Happy Together (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Happy Together (Chinese: 春光乍泄; pinyin: chūn guāng zhà xiè) is a 1997 Hong Kong movie directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai.
		His film is a splash of cold, fresh water on the face of a tired, over-fed beast."[2]
		Happy Together, which the New York Film Festival is showing tonight at 6 P.M. and tomorrow at 9 P.M., is a more coherent, heartfelt movie than the director's fantastical Hong Hong romps, Chungking Express and Fallen Angels (which the Film Festival showed on Tuesday).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Happy_Together_(film) (1075 words)

	Happy Together :: Film :: Boys on Boys on Film
		As many who have watched this film would point out, the relationship cools during the course of the movie, so the hottest action you do see is at the very beginning where the two engage in somewhat rough hanky panky.
		Being a Hong Kong film in 1997, the idea of it being linked to the handover is almost unavoidable, making it a film about ties that can never be severed, though two grow apart.
		All in all, it gives the impression of an art film, and like an art film, it touches the viewer on a level that can't quite be grasped.
	www.boysonboysonfilm.com /film/happytogether.html (473 words)

	Asia Studios > Wong Kar-wai Interview
		Question: The film is called "Happy Together" and the characters in the movie move through this relationship in which they are happy and sad, and we wanted to get an idea of what you felt happiness was, and how the characters try to achieve happiness.
		But after "Happy Together", people kept asking me about 'why you make a film about two men?', and I think, maybe when people stop asking these questions, then there won't be any difference in making a gay film or a film about a man and a woman.
		And in "Happy Together", because I think we should make this film as straight foward as possible, and the film is about distance, so I wanted to show these two characters in the first scene, and they are in fact very close to each other, because they are making love.
	www.asiastudios.com /interviews/members/wongkarwai.html (2121 words)

	Happy Endings movie review, In Film Australia
		There is a snide cheekiness in the title of Don Roos’ indie drama Happy Endings that goes some way in alluding to the quizzical effrontery of this, his third film as a writer/director force after The Opposite of Sex (1998) and Bounce (2000).
		Happy Endings, about a bunch of entangled non-nuclear families interwoven by vague and coincidental associations, is a frustratingly oblique film that is also deeply familiar with the contrivances of popular indie plots and structures.
		It’s the pipelines that connect the film’s audience to its characters that doesn’t make much chop: over the course of a number of fragmented episodes we are introduced to a range of complicated personalities but learn little of what makes them tick, and thus we feel little empathy for their messy predicaments.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/happyendings.htm (550 words)

	Happy Together - Kino on Video
		Winner of the Best Director Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together is a cinematic balancing act, a stunning display of filmmaking style and a touching love story evenly mixed into one film.
		Together with Australian Christopher Doyle, Kar-Wai's longtime cinematographer, the director discovers a city rich with diverse cultural influences.
		Happy Together reveals a corner of the world alive with intimate colors and an astonishing array of sounds.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?film_id=126 (351 words)

	sfweekly.com - Movies - Men in Love
		Happy Together is neither the crowd-pleaser that Chungking Express was nor an incomprehensible mess like Ashes of Time.
		While the film largely abandons the trick cutting and photography of his last three films, it's mostly in fl and white -- not the slick fl and white of American melodramas and film noir, but the rougher, more impromptu style of early Godard.
		In a city like San Francisco (and particularly at a theater like the Castro, where Happy Together opens this week), gay-themed films have a built-in audience, but in Hong Kong the subject matter is still risky, and hence rarely tackled.
	www.sfweekly.com /Issues/1997-11-12/film/film4_1.html (988 words)

	cityonfire.com \| Happy Together
		Happy Together reveals a corner of the world alive with intimate colors and an astounding array of sounds.
		Interesting fact: The film was originally three hours long, and was edited to it's current running time (an hour and a half) a day or so before it was to premiere ar Cannes.
		He uses fl and white film, oversaturated color, and slow mo to great effect and caps it all with the most amazing shot I have ever seen...Doyle was able to film the Icuazu falls from above in a helicopter.
	www.cityonfire.com /hkfilms/gh/happytogether.html (1187 words)

	Happy Together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		HAPPY TOGETHER is a jazzy, great-looking pastiche from Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai, who recently nabbed the Best Director prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
		Gossip had it that most of the jury had been in favor of awarding the gay-themed film top prize, but was swayed towards more conservative choices in keeping with the reverential tone of the event's fiftieth anniversary.
		HAPPY, which is anything but, is the melancholy tale of two lovers who somehow lose each other on the way to Igazu Falls.
	pridefilmfest.com /film98/happy.htm (239 words)

	Happy Together . Weekly Alibi . 04-27-98
		Happy Together is one film that inspires such thoughts.
		During some moments, the film's speed is manipulated--the motion flows like sticky syrup or briefly stutters like a school kid.
		Happy Together is at its heart an experimental film--there are no subplots, no backstories, merely what we see on the screen, and that is all viewers are given to make sense of the film.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/alibi/h/happytogether1.html (660 words)

	Film: Wong Kar Wai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The films of Wong Kar Wai are based on the same thing happening over and over again.
		Happy Together is one of three films--the most recent half of his output--in the truncated Wong Kar Wai retrospective that begins this week at the Parallèle.
		All three films were shot by Chris Doyle, whose bold, smeared images perfectly capture Wong Kar Wai's sense "that most of the time I don't even know where I'm going.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1998/060498/film5.html (485 words)

	Eye Weekly - Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together - 1 - 12.04.97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If Happy Together is not as jaw-droppingly stylish as Fallen Angels nor as unconventional in its narrative as Days of Being Wild, it is the most passionate of Wong's films.
		What inspired Wong to come to Argentina to film Happy Together was not necessarily a quest for a more exotic setting than a Kowloon subway station, but the literature of Gabriel García Márquez and Manuel Puig.
		In Happy Together, there is much that is unexpected, like how Taiwanese actor Zhang Zhen's character affects the story -- he brings with him an unsentimental optimism, the feeling that all of the trauma we've just witnessed may in fact have no bearing on future events.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.04.97/film/coverwong.html (1218 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Lan Yu / Happy Together
		In Happy Together, the visuals made the film come alive, and made concrete the dislocation that the main characters felt from their surroundings and each other.
		Since the film’s being told loosely from the perspective of a romantic neophyte, it forces the audience to be a bit more accepting of the obvious.
		In Happy Together, the characters seem to have full knowledge that their relationship is ultimately doomed, but they continue onward nonetheless, giving the film a quixotic feel that it can’t shake as its lovers tango back and forth during their Argentinean escapade.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1997/happytogether.htm (652 words)

	Happy Together Movie Review
		"Happy Together" is a straightforward narrative with the existential philosophy and the stylish-camera work toned-down, which made it an average Wong Kar-Wai film.
		The exhilaration of watching his films comes from fitting together the pieces of a 90-minute intellectual puzzle, and subsequent viewings generally revealed new interpretations and nuances.
		Though the film had a few moments of brilliance, the combination of leisurely pacing without the trademark eye- and brain-candy made it difficult to sit through-- there was just not enough mystery and mysticism to make it one of his better films.
	users.aol.com /aleong1631/happy.html (625 words)

	Re:mote Induction: Happy Together
		The opening seconds of the film are brightly coloured and the images initially difficult to anchor.
		Visually this is probably his most experimental film and yet, (again) this is done with no discomfort to the viewer.
		This film won Wong Kar-Wai the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and he continues to be recognized as one of cinema's finest.
	members.tripod.com /rem_ind/visual/haptog.htm (476 words)

	FILMBIZ
		Film Biz was a monthly, charitable event that brought together Washington area film, video and media professionals.
		For those who frequented the Film Biz Happy Hour, it was a great opportunity to hang out with colleagues and friends on a monthly basis, all while giving back to the greater community.
		The Film Biz founder and director, Allison Silberberg, began Film Biz in the summer of '96 "to create a sense of community for the local film and video industry, not to mention an opportunity for networking on an ongoing basis." For biographical information about Allison Silberberg, please go to the WHO page.
	www.filmbiz.org (599 words)

	HAPPY TOGETHER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Now, "Happy Together" is not about a man and his father, it is about a gay couple trying to reconcile and "start all over again" in Buenos Aires.
		There are a lot of critics out there who claim "Happy Together" is about the Hong Kong 1997 issue, which is really another way of saying, "I am an intellectual and I see things that are not there." Fuck that kind of bullshit.
		"Happy Together" is not, as the title seems to suggest, about two men who are happy with each other.
	www.naturalbornviewers.com /archive/h/happytogether/review.htm (1005 words)

	Love Happy - film reviews
		What largely disappoints is that, for the most part, only Chico and Harpo are seen; Groucho only appears in an occasional monologue, and doesn’t even appear with his brothers until the very end of the movie.
		Love Happy is remembered largely because it marks the first screen appearance of Marilyn Monroe, but even here, you’re bound to be disappointed.
		If we actually had the three of them together for more than just one scene, things would be completely different.
	www.danielthomas.org /pop/film_reviews/lovehappy.htm (500 words)

	dallasobserver.com - Movies - Of human feelings
		Happy Together, which won Wong the Best Director award in Cannes last May, is neither the crowd-pleaser that Chungking Express was nor an incomprehensible mess like Ashes of Time.
		Like most of Wong's films, it is meandering and far from action-packed--a character study that steadfastly plays its cards close to the vest.
		Wong disliked the film being labeled as a "gay film," which led to further discontent.
	www.dallasobserver.com /Issues/1998-07-02/film/film2.html (927 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 02/15/2006 : Women on the Verge
		What it lacks is originality and storytelling heft in order for the happy endings among its good-looking trio to matter past the classic Turtles song "Happy Together" (the film's title is in its lyrics) playing across the closing credits.
		All of the film's previous near-miss kisses lead to a big-kiss finale, and yet none of it matters.
		Happiness for the new couple means nothing if you can't empathize for the one left alone.
	www.citybeat.com /2006-02-15/film.shtml (1072 words)

	Happy Together (1997)
		Happy Together is an exercise in emotional estrangement—from one’s lover, one’s homeland, and oneself.
		Somehow they find themselves back together, and the slow burn of their disintegrating love provides more exploration into the lives of lost, lonely souls that is Wong Kar-Wai’s never-ending obsession.
		Happy Together is simply a journey, and an affecting one.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews/happy_together.htm (257 words)

	notcoming.com \| Happy Together
		Happy Together is Wong Kar-wai’s melancholy postcard from Buenos Aires, a vibrant, painful, and deeply nostalgic “wish you were(n’t) here” from two uprooted immigrants yearning for emotional security, for their homeland, and for each other.
		The film follows the torturous, masochistic relationship between two men, Lai Yiu-fai and Ho Po-wing, as they struggle for economic and emotional stability in the portside neighborhood of La Boca (photographed by Christopher Doyle in all its fluorescent dreariness).
		Structurally and thematically, Happy Together is a film of mental and emotional antipodes, beginning in Argentina and ending (on the other side of the world) in Taipei.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=367 (426 words)

	Amazon.com: Happy Together: DVD: Tony Leung,Leslie Cheung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is not a film that is trying one way or another to make an issue of gay relationships, all it is trying to do is display a relationship between two individuals and how it comes apart.
		What holds the little hints of greatness that were to come (this film dates back to 1997) is suggested in the lighting and camera work, both of which provide as major a role in the film as the actors and chaotic storyline.
		With no flashback to point to a happier time or a hint of a positive indication as to why they are together, Wong comes up short in inflaming any sparks that could still be struck between lovers who argue constantly.
	www.amazon.com /Happy-Together-Tony-Leung/dp/B0002X7GZ2 (2072 words)

	Happy Together . Newcity Chicago . 01-26-98
		In "Happy Together," Wong Kar-Wai's story of two Hong Kong gay men who drift to Argentina to try to start a new life, Wong uses Iguazu as a potent symbol of the romantic disaffection of Ho (Leslie Cheung) and Lai (Tony Leung) and how their lives never fit together.
		Wong and his tremendously talented cinematographer Chris Doyle were rebelling against the trademark style the film ends with, a gorgeous, idiosyncratic grammar of slow-motion and canted angles and blur and streaks of neon.
		While "Happy Together" isn't the easiest movie to watch, its images and mood stay with you, lingering like the stink of smoke in a sweater or the face you put to the last heartbreak.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/chicago/h/happytogether1.html (407 words)

	DVD Reviews - Ashes of Time, Fallen Angels & Happy Together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Wong is one of the most extraordinarily visual stylists in film, and with each film he seems to get even more stylized.
		The film is filled with explosive jump cuts, metaphoric imagery and representational characters.
		From the opening shots of the film, we are treated to nothing short of an assault of images, where we are introduced to the main characters, and what stands as a story.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews/wongkarwaiseries.html (2087 words)

	Happy Together: review by Shelly Kraicer
		The film is built around this scene: it is shown near the beginning and again near its end, just before the coda.
		That's just what is at the crux of Happy Together: a productive tension, a pressure on its content by its structure, that hints at an expansion of possibility without any of the old limits.
		Perhaps this is what really is at the heart of the "happy together" that the film's ecstatic conclusion celebrates: a synthesis, full of possibility, of two cultural spaces, or two cinematic spaces, or two ways of life.
	www.chinesecinemas.org /happy.html (1730 words)

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