Fallen Angels 15

Lost souls reach out for human connection amidst the glimmering lights of Hong Kong by night in Wong Kar-Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked film. Originally conceived as a segment of Chungking Express only to spin off on its own woozy axis, this hyper-cool head rush plays like the dark, moody flip side to Kar-Wai’s breakout feature as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners.

Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, Fallen Angels is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.