#Chungking express full movie movie#
If you can imagine a contemporary punk, Hong Kong Louise Brooks, Wang's the gal you'll probably never be able to listen to "California Dreamin' " again without thinking of her.Īs for Wong, he probably deserves his current slot as the hipster's international filmmaker of choice - a cachet given him, in part, by Hong Kong movie devotee Quentin Tarantino, who picked "Chungking Express" as the first movie to be distributed by his Miramax-backed Rolling Thunder company. Skinny and cheeky, with a cropped pixie haircut, hip-shaking movements and an air of impervious insouciance, Wang has one of those movie faces you never tire of looking at. So what "Chungking Express" really gives us is a double-barreled romance, set in a tangily well-realized urban landscape, spiced up with incredibly lively camera work and a sexy cast.Īnd although all the actors are charmers, Faye Wang as the "California Dreamin' " girl is really special.
223 with a mysterious woman in a blonde wig (Brigitte Lin) and California rocker Faye with Badge No. In both cases, the narrator tells us, as if it were as inevitable as Greek tragedy, somebody is about to fall in love: Badge No.
The film consists of two episodes with the same background but different titles: "Chungking House," after the arcade where both stories take place, and "Midnight Express," the name of the fast-food joint. 663 hangs around a fast-food emporium mooning over a stewardess who skipped out, while the boss tries to steer him to his new waitress Faye (Faye Wang), a trim, T-shirted cutie who keeps bopping away to her own tape of the Mamas and the Papas' "California Dreamin.' " 223 keeps buying cans of pineapple with the expiration date of May 1, because he regards that date as the cutoff point for his former girlfriend's return.