Chungking Express (1994)

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[luna]

flashy but insubstantial. apparently it's about fleeting love in the urbane jungle, but after trying so hard to exude 'cool' and 'flair' it isn't really all that much, and it's only mildly enjoyable.45

[Jake Gittes]

The whole girl secretly getting into the guy's apartment thing bothered me a bit, although it could have been handled much worse. Thankfully I loved almost everything else about it - the characters, the beautiful, constant energy, the way the first story gives place to the second ("six hours later, she fell in love with another man" is an amazing moment), and obviously the soundtrack. I've never seen any other filmmaker create absolute poetry out of the most mundane, ordinary everyday things the way Wong does it here - it has to be the most beautiful film ever made about snack bars, cheap coffee and tins of pineapple, and hell, about the contemporary urban life in general.