Chungking Express - 35mm-Analogfilm!

In the streets of Hong Kong at night, the paths of two lonely policemen and two enigmatic women cross, whose encounters are characterized by coincidences, longing and missed moments. Between fast-food stalls, cramped apartments and neon lights, the big city film tells of fleeting relationships, unrequited feelings and the search for closeness in a crowded city in fragmentary episodes. With dynamic camerawork, Chungking Express combines romantic melancholy with pop-cultural coolness, in which urban loneliness is stylized into a poetic snapshot of modern life.

Much like in the loose sequel Fallen Angels (1995), film poet and director Wong Kar-Wai thematizes the feeling of passing each other by in the constant transit of the modern present. One hopes so much with the characters that their paths might cross at the right moment that it almost hurts. You get the feeling that it is the desire for constant movement itself that prevents the characters from pausing. Chungking Express is radical contemporary cinema and at the same time a highly moving film about love.