World of Wong Kar-Wai: As Tears Go By

Name: World of Wong Kar-Wai: As Tears Go By
Start: 2025-08-12T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Somerville Theatre

Schedule

Tue, 12 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Somerville Theatre | Somerville, MA

Playing in 4k — and on the Somerville's 4k projector — as part of our World of Wong Kar-Wai series!
Wong Kar-Wai’s scintillating debut feature is a kinetic, hypercool crime thriller graced with flashes of the impressionistic, daydream visual style for which he would become renowned. Set amid Hong Kong’s ruthless, neon-lit gangland underworld, this operatic saga of ambition, honor, and revenge stars Andy Lau as a small-time mob enforcer who finds himself torn between a burgeoning romance with his ailing cousin (Maggie Cheung, in the first of her iconic collaborations with the director) and loyalty to his loose-cannon partner in crime (Jacky Cheung), whose reckless attempts to make a name for himself unleash a spiral of violence. Marrying the pulp pleasures of the gritty Hong Kong action drama with hints of the head-rush romanticism Wong would push to intoxicating heights throughout the 1990s, AS TEARS GO BY was a box-office smash that heralded the arrival of one of contemporary cinema’s most electrifying talents.