Hidden
away in a corner of the
Forum programme is a big
event: the world premiere
of a new film from Wong
Kar-Wai. Buenos
Aires Zero Degree
(put together by Kwan
Pun-Leung, cinematographer
on Stanley Kwan's The
Island Tales,
and his partner Amos Lee)
is not so much a documentary
on the making of Happy
Together as an
alternative version of
that film.
Kwan
and Lee did visit Argentina
to find traces left by
Wong and his crew, and
did interview some of
those caught up in the
adventure of its production.
But most of their film
is composed of unused
rushes from Wong's pic
including alternative
endings, rejected narrative
twists and liberal chunks
of Shirley Kwan's performance,
which was cut out of the
film itself.
