FALLEN ANGELS

SHOWTIME: Saturday, November 13, 2021 6:15 PM

SYNOPSIS: Lost souls reach out for human connection amidst the glimmering night world of Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment of Chungking Express only to spin off on its own woozy axis, this hyper-cool head rush plays like the dark, moody flip side to Wong’s breakout feature as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hitman (Leon Lai) looking to go straight, his business partner (Michelle Reis) who secretly yearns for him, and a mute delinquent (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who wreaks mischief by night. Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, Fallen Angels is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.

DIRECTOR: Wong Kar Wai | LANGUAGE: Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese, English | SUBTITLES: English

YEAR: 1995 | RUNNING TIME: 96 minutes | COLOR / B&W

COUNTRY: Hong Kong | GENRE: Drama