This event is FULLY BOOKED. You can still register on the waiting list, if there is any space available we will let you know.
Happy Together (1997), Wong Kar-wai (Best director and Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival)
In the context of the Cinema Lecture Series, we screen some of the most renowned movies of international cinema! The screenings are kicked off with a brief introduction by an expert from one of the RUG’s faculties and concluded with an open discussion about the movie in question.
This time we will watch a classic of 1990s queer cinema: Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together. As always, Kar-wai builds an aesthetically captivating cinematic world with his trademark approach that focuses on atmosphere, colour, and interconnectedness of picture frames. Happy Together follows the on-and-off passionate and destructive relationship of two gay men from Hong-Kong as they get lost and found time and again in the foreign land of Argentina. Lai and Ho, the two protagonists, transcend both the coming-out trope of mainstream queer cinema and the happy-ever-after cliches of impotent heteronormative cinema. Kar-wai portrays a masochistic relationship that moves beyond the plainness and simplicity of finding pleasure-in-pain into the dialectic of bondage and humiliation. Lai and Ho seem to be actively seeking to both hurt and be hurt by their love object.
Prof. Dr Oliver Moore will introduce the movie and steer the discussion after the screening.
The first drink is on us!
Date: 14/04/2023, 18:15 - 21:15 hrs
Location: The exact location will be sent after registration.
This event is provided free of charge.
Registration is mandatory because there is a limited number of seats.
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