Chungking Express (重慶森林) + Fallen Angels (墮落天使) Boxset
Chungking Express and Fallen Angels are two of internationally-acclaimed director Wong Kar Wai's signature works, and now both films are available in Digitally Remastered DVD editions! Created from HD masters, these versions of Wong Kar Wai's classic films are possibly the highest-quality editions yet available!
Made separately, but forever joined at the hip, Chungking Express and Fallen Angels constitute a particular period in director Wong Kar Wai's peerless filmography. Both films present quirky but recognizable lead characters who suffer from that common malady: heartbreak. In Chungking Express, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro are cops nursing broken hearts, who find new opportunities with Faye Wong and Brigitte Lin in Hong Kong's Tsimshatsui and Central districts. Fallen Angels takes the themes of Chungking Express and pushes them to darker and deeper levels. Starring Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Karen Mok, Charlie Young, and Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fallen Angels explores a darker side of Hong Kong's nightlife - especially when compared to the lighter tone of Chungking Express. But, as with nearly all of Wong Kar Wai's films, it's love - and its missed chances, sudden opportunities, and undeniable attractions - that drive these characters to their funny, romantic, hopeful, and sometimes even bitter ends. Acclaimed both in Hong Kong and abroad, Chungking Express and Fallen Angels undoubtedly qualify as two of the most influential Asian films of the nineties. [Quelle: YesAsia]
| Drama / Mystery / Romanze | Jet Tone Production Co., Ltd. | Hong Kong 1994
