World of Wong Kar-Wai: Chungking Express
Schedule
Sat, 16 Aug, 2025 at 08:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Somerville Theatre | Somerville, MA
Playing in 4k — and on the Somerville's 4k projector — as part of our World of Wong Kar-Wai series!The whiplash, double-pronged CHUNGKING EXPRESS is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar-Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing.
