Happy Together (1997 film)

Happy Together
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese春光乍洩
Simplified Chinese春光乍泄
Literal meaningspring light at first glance
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChūnguāng zhàxiè
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingCeon1 gwong1 zaa3 sit3
Directed byWong Kar-wai
Written byWong Kar-wai
Produced byWong Kar-wai
Starring
CinematographyChristopher Doyle
Edited by
Music byDanny Chung
Production
companies
  • Jet Tone Production
  • Block 2 Pictures
  • Seowoo Film Company
  • Prénom H Co. Ltd.
Distributed byGolden Harvest Company
Release dates
  • 17 May 1997 (1997-05-17) (Cannes)
  • 30 May 1997 (1997-05-30) (Hong Kong)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesCantonese[1]
Spanish
English
Mandarin
Box officeHK$8,600,141 (HK)
$320,319 (US)[2]

Happy Together (Chinese: 春光乍洩) is a 1997 Hong Kong romantic drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, depicting a couple's turbulent romance. The English title is inspired by the Turtles' 1967 song of the same name, which is covered by Danny Chung on the film's soundtrack. The Chinese title (previously used for Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup) is an idiomatic expression suggesting "the exposure of something intimate".[3][4]

The film was regarded as one of the best LGBT films in the New Queer Cinema movement and received critical acclaim and screened at several film festivals such as the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival; it was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won Best Director at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.[5][6][7]

In 2022, Happy Together was ranked the 225th greatest film of all time in the Sight & Sound critics' poll.[8] In 2016, the film was ranked the 3rd greatest LGBT film of all time in the British Film Institute poll.[9] In 2018, it was ranked the 71st greatest foreign-language film of all time in the BBC poll.[10]

  1. ^ "Happy Together". BBFC. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Happy Together (1997)". Box Office Mojo. 2 December 1997. Archived from the original on 29 December 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
  3. ^ Tambling, Jeremy. (2003). Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-988-8053-35-3. OCLC 1032571763.
  4. ^ Tony Rayns. "Happy Together (1997)". Time Out Film Guide. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008.
  5. ^ "Development of the New Queer Cinema Movement". Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Happy Together". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 22 August 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2009.
  7. ^ Lippe, Richard (1998). "GAY MOVIES, WEST AND EAST: In & Out: Happy Together". Cineaction (45): 52–59. ISSN 0826-9866.
  8. ^ "The Greatest Films of All Time". BFI. Archived from the original on 18 March 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
  9. ^ "The 30 Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time". BFI. 15 March 2016. Archived from the original on 21 April 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  10. ^ "The 100 greatest foreign-language films". BBC CULTURE. 29 October 2018. Archived from the original on 25 December 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

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