Hong Kong, 1997
Al got me this DVD for £2 years ago, when Global Video on Great Western Road was shutting down, and when I was in the initial blooms of a Wong Kar Wai obsession. Strange, then, that I hadn't gotten round to watching it til now. Perhaps it's to do with seeing a film at the CCA a while ago that used a few frames from Happy Together ran on a loop as the visual back-up for a film essay on diasporas, travelling, love, theory, literature, film and so on. It reminded me Wong Kar Wai's wonderful use of colour, and the use of that colour to create emotional states visually, of making the film be the state, rather than show it, of making film live as a feeling, I suppose.
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