Someone Else's Movie

Kaveh Nabatian on Happy Together

Episode Summary

Kaveh Nabatian, whose new drama Sin La Habana just dropped on Apple TV, celebrates the exquisite melancholy of Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung in Wong Kar-wai's 1997 breakup drama Happy Together. Your genial host Norm Wilner remains dazzled by the cinematography, and amazed that Tony Leung is in Marvel movies now.

Episode Notes

Filmmaker Kaveh Nabatian, whose new drama Sin La Habana just dropped on Apple TV and is still playing in Toronto at the Carlton Cinema, is here to celebrate the exquisite melancholy of Wong Kar-wai's 1997 breakup drama Happy Together, in which Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung bring their disintegrating relationship to Argentina in search of a miracle, and wind up even further apart. Your genial host Norm Wilner remains dazzled by the cinematography, and amazed that Tony Leung is in Marvel movies now.