Chungking Express
重慶森林
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| Poster Origin : | Hong Kong |
| Poster Size : | Hong Kong Large / 66 x 96cm |
| Poster Artist : | Stanley Wong |
| Poster Year : | 1994 |
| Poster Version : | First Release |
| Film Origin : | Hong Kong |
| Film Director : | Wong Kar Wai |
| Film Year : | 1994 |
The original Hong Kong poster for Wong Kar Wai's western breakthrough film divides collectors. Some regard it a distinguished mixed-media collage, others dismiss it as an ugly, confusing mess.
On its own it features a random and meaningless collection of objects thrown together without rhyme or reason, but as souvenirs from the story each one resonates significance and poignancy.
The film is an energetic patchwork of characters, relationships, themes and styles, overlapping, interweaving, blurring. As a graphical counterpart this poster matches it perfectly.