At this point, if you haven’t seen Wong Kar-wai’s impossibly lush and impeccably scored forbidden-love epic, what are you doing? I say epic even though the action takes place mostly in the stairwell of one apartment complex and a noodle restaurant, because that’s how much each moment blooms with the director’s and actors’ treatment of two neighbors that find out their respective spouses are cheating on them with each other. Their initial connection, born of shared misfortune, becomes a different beast amid the dimly lit streets of 1960s Hong Kong. Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung are the most gorgeous people in the most gorgeous duds you’ve ever seen. – Lina Fisher
Sept. 12-13 & 16
