Film Series

Wong Kar-Wai

Tuesday, 2/21 and Thursday, 2/23

On Tuesday, two Wong Kar Wai classics, Fallen Angels and In the Mood For Love. On Thursday, Time, Space, and Being: Wong Kar Wai and his Cinematic Illustration of Hong Kong Identity, a talk by Swarthmore College Professor of Chinese, Haili Kong

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Fallen Angels

Starring: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis and Takeshi Kaneshiro

Set in the neon-washed underworld of present-day Hong Kong, Fallen Angels intertwines two exhilarating tales of love and isolation in a blitz of ultra-hip style and classical cinematic sensibilities.

  • Director: Wong Kar Wai
  • Rating: R
  • Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Genre: Neo-noir

“An exhilarating rush of a movie, with all manner of go-for-broke visual bravura that expresses perfectly the free spirits of his bold young people.”

– LA Times

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In the Mood For Love

Starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai

Chow Mo-wan rents a room in a Hong Kong apartment building. It's sheer coincidence that he moves in the same day that Su Li-zhen moves in next door. They never have a real conversation until Mr. Chow realizes that their respective spouses are having an affair.

  • Director: Wong Kar Wai
  • Rating: PG
  • Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Romance

“Probably the most breathtakingly gorgeous film of the year, dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass romantic spirit that has been missing from the cinema forever.”

– New York Times

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Time, Space, and Being: Wong Kar Wai and his Cinematic Illustration of Hong Kong Identity

Haili Kong (PhD in comparative literature), professor of Chinese, has been teaching Chinese language, literature, and cinema since 1994 at Swarthmore College. His publication includes The Melancholic Northeasterner (1998), One Hundred Years of Chinese Cinema (2006), and Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City (2007).

A talk by Swarthmore College Professor of Chinese, Haili Kong.

Presented by the Asian Studies Department at Williams College