Happy Together is still a once-in-a-lifetime movie

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 12, 2024

Wong’s commitment to the tedious nature of his film’s core romance highlights a key pillar of the 90s LGBTQ experience. Many of us know what it’s like to give partners significantly more chances than they deserve.

| Apr 29, 2024

To describe Happy Together as unpredictable is an understatement, as Wong's free-style film-making steers the narrative in any number of directions.

| Jan 24, 2023

Beautifully photographed by Chris Doyle, the film's gently understated metaphors of searching and exploration linger on.

| Jan 21, 2023

Slim material? Definitely. But there is no chance to get fidgety with Wong the magician at the helm, guiding us lyrically through the seedier side of Buenos Aires.

| Jan 20, 2023

Some of its images are so polished in their beauty that they could have been taken from the many 온라인카지노추천 ads already influenced by Wong and his team. But Happy Together also turns out to be the most thoughtful and philosophically rewarding of his films.

| Jan 20, 2023

Images and mood... lingering like the stink of smoke in a sweater or the face you put to the last heartbreak. Wong is an insecure romantic who reaches out for the moment before him.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Apr 21, 2022

...contains perhaps the most heartbreaking moment in all of Wong's heartbreak cinema.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2021

Tony Leung delivers a great performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2021

Something remarkable about Happy Together is that, unlike so many pieces of queer cinema, it's not a film about coming out of the closet.

| Mar 26, 2021

[The] collaboration with cinematographer Christopher Doyle proved perhaps the most singular and innovative such pairing since Bertolucci and Storaro.

| Dec 18, 2020

A story about the gesture in a relationship. The needs and the lacks of the human interaction in a place parallel to your everyday reality, Buenos Aires. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2020

For all the simplicity of the narrative, 'Happy Together' is anything but slight. It's a moody, contemplative piece of work, and a vividly tactile one as well, lingering on food, smoke, bodies, blood, and water.

| Oct 30, 2017

Not much 'happens' in Happy Together, but it not-happens in the most delectable way.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 27, 2015

all-around fabulous work

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 17, 2010

... casts a spell of hyper-reality and immediacy softened by the longing and melancholy of the narration and music.

| Jun 10, 2010

The story may end in Taiwan on a heartbreaking note, but we're left somewhere between here and there, happily drifting through the film's luscious netherworld of sound and image.

| Sep 1, 2009

A step in a new direction for the very stylish and always fascinating Hong Kong director.

| Jul 4, 2008

When they are together, they are miserable and constantly bicker; when they are apart, they mope around, wallowing in their lonely sadness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 12, 2007

Moody account of lovers in Buenos Aires

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2005