Other movies might have a tighter pace, generate suspense better or deal with more important issues. But they aren’t Chungking Express.
From the run-down, yet personable apartments the characters inhabit, to the dingy bars, grocery stores and fast food joints that bring them together, the sense of time and place of Hong Kong in spring 1994 is palpable and intoxicating. Within this inherently melancholy setting, loosely connected tales of longing and loss play out. Scenes that could have been incoherent,…
