Photographed by expat Australian Christopher Doyle, Fallen Angels is cinematic exuberance in the hands of a confident filmmaker who builds a montage, and serves you a smorgasbord of images and characters that inhabit a world you are invited to experience.
Fallen Angels (Hong Kong) (1996)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:19
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Kar-Wai's neo-noir fantasy about a hitman who is disturbed to realize that he is falling for his partner. Throw into the mix a mysterious drifter who is searching for her... Acclaimed director Kar-Wai's neo-noir fantasy about a hitman who is disturbed to realize that he is falling for his partner. Throw into the mix a mysterious drifter who is searching for her ex-boyfriend and a humorous mute, and the results are an ingenious blend of art and entertainment, set amidst Hong Kong's bleak, urban landscape. One of the decade's most influential foreign films. [More]
Starring: Leon Lai, Michele Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung
Starring: Leon Lai, Michele Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Screenwriter: Kar-Wai Wong
Producer: Jeff Lau
Composer: Frankie Chan, Roel A. Garcia
Reviews for Fallen Angels (Hong Kong)
The film is Wong's most visually striking, with Wong and Doyle constantly inventing intoxicating new angles for every shot.
A brilliantly innovative filmmaker who gets his feelings across through the cheeky and sometimes surreal visuals and his cool style of filmmaking.
Fallen Angels lunges and chases after its rapidly receding subjects, looking to capture and preserve a trace of their presence before the sun rises and the shadows fade.
Stylish and mesmerizing... Equals the poignance of Chungking Express.
There’s a lot more to Wong Kar-Wai than tremendous cinematic skill and distinctive style. He’s got something to say about the modern condition.
Like Wong's film stock, whose meager latitude won't let the eye deep into the image, Wong's characters, all 20-something slackers and grotesques, have the same lack of depth.
An exhilarating rush of a movie, with all manner of go-for-broke visual bravura that expresses perfectly the free spirits of [Wong's] bold young people.
Fallen Angels is more challenging visually than any mainstream Hollywood film I've ever seen.
Wong brings tremendous vigor and audacity to the effort, asking us to question the most basic rules of storytelling and commercial filmmaking.
It has a life of its own, thanks to Wong's over-the-top blend of John Woo-like violence and almost surreal humor.
Wong has used practically every cinematic element available to him to create a mood of love gone off the track, drawn-out wishes, time passing emptily, and disconnection.
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