In the neon-lit streets of Hong Kong after dark, a contract killer, his emotionally entangled agent and a young man who cannot speak drift through lives marked by chance encounters and frustrated desires. Originally conceived in connection with Chungking Express, Fallen Angels takes Wong Kar-wai’s urban romance into a stranger, darker world.
Extreme wide-angle images, restless editing, saturated colours and an eclectic soundtrack turn familiar city spaces into a dreamlike maze. By turns violent, funny and unexpectedly tender, the film explores alienation, intimacy and the fragile possibility of human connection amid the city’s nocturnal rhythms.
Film Studies - Wong Kar-wai: Love, Time and the City
Few filmmakers have captured the beauty, loneliness and emotional complexity of modern life quite like Wong Kar-wai.
Director Wong Kar-wai
Year 1995
Duration
1h 39m
Language Cantonese, Mandarin with English subtitles
Cast Leon Lai, Michele Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro