CHUNGKING EXPRESS + FALLEN ANGELS

In this special double bill, two of Wong Kar-wai's defining works map the restless pulse of 1990s Hong Kong through missed connections, sleepless nights, and impossible romances.

Chungking Express (1994) is a rush of pop music, fast food, and chance encounters, where lovelorn cops and dreamers cross paths in a city that never stops moving. A year later, Fallen Angels (1995) descends into the after-hours counterpart: stranger, darker, and more intoxicating, following hitmen, hustlers, and insomniacs through neon-soaked streets where intimacy feels as fleeting as the last train home.

Seen together, the films form an unofficial diptych—one buoyant, one haunted; one bathed in daylight possibility, the other consumed by the electric glow of midnight. More than thirty years on, they remain among the most influential portraits of urban loneliness ever put to film, capturing the feeling of searching for connection in a world moving just a little too fast.

Presented by Deeper Into Movies.

This is an 18+ event