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Saturday, 19 September 2009

Chungking Express
(1994)

40%

A great sprawling mess of a film that starts badly and goes nowhere from there.

Two lovelorn police officers are on the lookout for love but are unable to find it for looking in the wrong places. Their various girlfriends are hard to pin down, as they tend to leave at a moment's notice or without giving any notice at all; reflecting the general fecklessness of the central characters, themselves.

The travel metaphor of one of the policeman's two girlfriends being air stewardesses - who search for fulfilment but only find it at home - is well done, but little else is. The drug smuggling scenes are poorly integrated with the overall design and we appear to be watching two completely different films.


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