Playing as part of Academy Cinemas' CINEMA OF SOLITUDE festival June 18th - July 9th.102 mins | Rated M (Violence) | Romance
Directed by Wong Kar-Wai | Starring Tony Leung, Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Faye Wong
The whiplash, double-pronged CHUNGKING EXPRESS is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai an instant icon.
'Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works.'
Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing.
Event Venue
Academy Cinemas, 44 Lorne Street, Auckland, New Zealand
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