FRI SEP 1, 2023 10:00 PM HAPPY TOGETHER $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Introduction by author Kyle Turner ‘Outfest x American Cinematheque’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE EVENT: OUTFEST BOOK CLUB! Join us for a series of screenings paired with discussions around recent LGBTQIA+ book releases. Before the screening of HAPPY TOGETHER, author Kyle Turner will introduce the film in relation to his new book, The Queer Film Guide: 100 Great Movies That Tell LGBTQIA+ Stories. ABOUT THE FILM: In Cantonese and Spanish with English subtitles. One of the most searing romances of the 1990s, Wong Kar-wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung as a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they break up, make up, and fall apart again and again. Setting out to depict the dynamics of a queer relationship with empathy and complexity on the cusp of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong – when the country’s LGBT community suddenly faced an uncertain future – Wong crafts a feverish look at the life cycle of a love affair that’s by turns devastating and deliriously romantic. Shot by ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle in both luminous monochrome and luscious saturated color, HAPPY TOGETHER is an intoxicating exploration of displacement and desire that swoons with the ache and exhilaration of love at its heart-tearing extremes. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Hong Kong