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Happy Together (春光乍泄) is a 1997 Hong Kong movie directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai. Music by Sugar Minott.
A gay couple from pre-handover Hong Kong visits Argentina to renew their lagging relationship. Among other sites, they want to visit the Iguacu waterfalls which serve as a leitmotiv in the movie and represents their desire to revive the intensity of attraction they felt at the outset of their relationship.
The couple runs out of money and are force to return to Hong Kong. Separating, Ho-Po Wing (Leslie Cheung) becomes a hustler, while Lai Yiu-fai (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) ekes out a living as a waiter.
One day Ho-Po Wing turns up injured at Lai Yiu-fai's apartment, beaten, and is taken in by Lai. Their former relationship of mutual abuse and dependence is rekindled, even though Lai does not want to have sex with Ho-Po Wing anymore.
At work, Lai becomes sexually interested in Chang, a fellow Chinese. Chang helps Lai out of his depression, perhaps because Lai is reminded that there are other young gay men available for him and that he idealized his relationship with Ho-Po wing too much, just as he idealized the image of the waterfalls on their night table lamp.
Eventually, Lai finds the strength to visit the waterfalls and then returns to Hong Kong.
Best Director, 1997 Cannes Film Festival
See also: Cinema of China
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