Has anyone here seen Happy Together? I watched it tonight and it seemed Buffista-y. It had one gay love scene, two beautiful/sad love stories, and three people stuck in a foreign country (a la Lost in Translation, but better). Plus, it had what I think may be Tony Leung's best performance (which is saying something). There were some scenes in it which I know will stay with me a long time.

The Black Swan. Yum. Much goodness.

I'm trying to find a movie and I don't even know where to start googling...it's a British ghost story, a couple moves into a big house, maybe in Cornwall, and the house is haunted. I can't remember who starred in it or anything, just that it was once recommended to me as a good ghost story movie. Any ideas?

Any ideas?

What era was the movie made in? That would help narrow it down. Something recent or older?

Has anyone here seen Happy Together?

I have. What I liked about it most was the end, where the main character meets that young sprat down at Tierra del Fuego, and he takes the voice recorder to "say something momentous" at the bottom end of the world, and he can't come up with any words.

A very Wong Kar-wai movie. (Which, I mean, it is.)

Any ideas?

Sounds potentially like THE UNINVITED with Ray Milland and t /memfault , but they were brother and sister I believe, not husband and wife. Don't quote me on the latter, but that's what I recall.

Unless it's modern day-ish (as in, not from the 40s). Then I have no idea (or too many).

Has anyone here seen Happy Together?

Great movie. But then I'm a totally biased, yet not completely uncritical, Wong Kar-wai/Christopher Doyle fan.

Plus, it had what I think may be Tony Leung's best performance (which is saying something).

Leslie's {sob!} too.

I think Tony Leung Chiu-wai must be one of the greatest actors working today and his best work is with WKW.

WKW's pretty much notorious for never working with a script and actors sign on only having a vague idea or outline of the plot & characters. And he always, always makes rather significant changes to what he told them the movie would and actors can never really do any useful prep before shooting. He told Tony that Happy Together was going to be a movie about his relationship with his father who he finds out is gay and was having an affair with Leslie's character. The father dies in Argentina. Tony goes to get him and hooks up with Leslie and learns a lot about his father and himself blah blah blah.

So they're all in Argentina for a few weeks learning Spanish and setting stuff up, etc. and the day before shooting WKW tells Tony that it would be much better & cooler if his character was gay and having a relationship with Leslie. The first scene they shot was the love scene at the beginning of the movie.

A very Wong Kar-wai movie.

Yup, in the best sense.

Hi Candy B!

I head a while ago that 2046 was going to be released this month, but I haven't heard anything about it actually happening. Has anyone.

Hi Sue!

No word on 2046 US release. Thank GOD Sony Classics, not Miramax has the rights, so hopefully sometime this year. I got the dvd last fall.

Very WKW, not entirely in the best sense.

But I lovelovelove love it.

What's entertaining is how so many of Wong's movies have no plot, or only a tiny bit of one, and move forward on the basis of mood and emotion. This can be hilarious and sweet, as in Chunking Express, and this can be 2 hours of melancholy longing and anomie, as in the one set in 1960s Hong Kong whose title I've forgotten.

Actually, based on advance press for 2046, I am seeing a trend away from hilarity and toward anomie. I do tend to prefer the hilarity, or anyway the instance of it in Chungking Express.

and this can be 2 hours of melancholy longing and anomie, as in the one set in 1960s Hong Kong whose title I've forgotten.

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, perhaps?