REVIEWS “Lost souls reach out for human connection amidst the glimmering night world of Hong Kong in Wong Kar-wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment of Chungking Express only to spin off on its own woozy axis, this hyper-cool head rush plays like the dark, moody flip side to Wong’s breakout feature as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hitman (Leon Lai) looking to go straight, his business partner (Michelle Reis) who secretly yearns for him, and a mute delinquent (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who wreaks mischief by night. Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, Fallen Angels is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.”
– Janus Films “As stylish and audacious as Days of Being Wild and Chungking Express, Wong Kar-wai’s film is another poignant but occasionally playful study of forlorn romance and melancholy solitude. Good-looking twenty-somethings struggle to make it through the night in the neon-lit streets, bars and diners of a Hong Kong rendered magically moody by the extreme wide-angle lens of Chris Doyle’s fluid camera. Exhilarating and, in the end, unexpectedly touching.” – Geoff Andrew, Time Out |
FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGSCanterbury
Monday, 11 May, 7.00pm Wellington Monday, 15 June, 6.00pm Wellington Monday, 15 June, 8.30pm Auckland Monday, 6 July, 6.15pm Queenstown Tuesday, 15 September, 8.00pm Dunedin Wednesday, 23 September, 7.30pm Whanganui Monday, 19 October, 7.00pm Palmerston North Wednesday, 04 November, 6.00pm Hamilton Monday, 16 November, 6.30pm |