Fallen Angels

Director: Wong Kar-wai

1995 / 99min / DCP

Part hard-boiled crime thriller and part soft, featherweight giddiness, Fallen Angels was first conceived as a segment of Wong’s Chungking Express, then developed into a darker companion piece to his glistening pop-romantic masterpiece, the story of a hitman (Leon Lai) looking to hang up his gun, the business partner (Michelle Reis) who quietly lusts after him, and a mute troublemaker (Takeshi Kaneshiro) running amok in Hong Kong. Christopher Doyle’s cinematography has never been more woozily, blearily beautiful, nor has the Fragrant Harbor ever been put on screen with such transfixing nocturnal glamor.

Part of '90s Noir