In the organizer's words:

The fates of a hitman, his enigmatic partner and other lost souls intersect in the nocturnal streets of Hong Kong. Their lonely forays reveal a poetic search for closeness in a world full of alienation.

A network narrative that connects characters bathed in the neon light of fluorescent tubes and the non-places around them. The result is a mixture of gangster film, love story and melancholic-comedic father-son drama, which above all turns out to be deeply romantic time and again. Wong Kar-Wai and his cinematographer ensure that the camera remains constantly mobile and kinetic, allowing us to get very close to the experience of our big city protagonists. Again and again, his films deal with feelings of loss, the difficult search for connection and the question of whether it is still possible to break out through love. Fallen Angels is no exception. The final shot of the film in particular will almost certainly burn itself into the memory. Cinema can give even a small waft of smoke from a cigarette great significance.