"Inspired by Wong’s love of Latin American literature, Happy Together stars Hong Kong’s two top male heartthrobs, Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, as gay lovers on the lam in Buenos Aires — an audacious bit of casting that Wong likened to a Hollywood film featuring “Tom Cruise sleeping with Brad Pitt.” Taking its title from the hit song by The Turtles, the film charts the men’s stormy relationship as it ebbs, explodes, resumes, and dies against a backdrop of decaying tenements, backstreets, and seedy tango bars. (The couple’s on-again, mostly off-again affair can be read as an allegory of Hong Kong’s then imminent handover to mainland China.) Wong stakes his all on visual style, employing garish colours and sooty black and white, dense, jagged editing, and artificial effects to heighten the sense of disconnection and desperation. Winner of the Best Director award at Cannes, Happy Together is “a take-no-prisoners movie from one of Hong Kong’s most idiosyncratic, shoot-from-the-hip filmmakers that’s the very antithesis of sentimental gay love stories” (The Los Angeles Times)." TIFF