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Chungking Express

February 26, 2021 - February 28, 2021

Virtual screening, free for everyone!

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Screening link active 2/26 – 2/28

The whiplash, double-pronged “Chungking Express” is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops, both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal waitress Faye 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.

(Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, Cantonese w/ Eng. Sub, 102 min, 1994)

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Start:
February 26, 2021
End:
February 28, 2021
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Organizer

Union Cinema
Phone
414-229-4070
Email
cinema@uwm.edu