In the Spectrum of Love
August 16 & 23, 2025
STArt Film Studio presents In the Spectrum of Love, a touring showcase of four iconic Chinese-language films. Across six cities, we invite you to rediscover these unforgettable portraits of intimacy, distance, silence, and resilience.
In the Spectrum of Love: Happy Together
1997 | 96 min. | Wong Kar-Wai
August 16, 2025
Ho Po-Wing and Lai Yiu-Fai are a gay couple from Hong Kong with a turbulent relationship marked by frequent separations and reconciliations. They visit Argentina together but break up after they become lost while traveling to visit the Iguazu Falls.
In the Spectrum of Love: Vive L'Amour
1994 | 118 min. | Tsai Ming-liang
August 16, 2025
Focusing on three city folk who unknowingly share the same apartment. A promiscuous real estate agent, her current lover and a homeless man who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
In the Spectrum of Love: All Shall Be Well
2024 | 93 min. | Ray Yeung
August 23, 2025
Angie and Pat have been together for over four decades but after Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of Pat's family as she struggles to retain her dignity and the home that both had shared for over thirty years.
In the Spectrum of Love: Lan Yu
2001 | 86 min. | Stanley Kwan
August 23, 2025
Beijing, 1988. On the cusp of middle age, Chen Handong (Hu Jun) has known little but success all his life. The eldest son of a senior government bureaucrat, he heads a fast-growing trading company and plays as hard as he works. Few know that Handong's tastes run more to boys than girls. Chen develops a relationship with a young boy named Lan Yu (Ye Liu) that goes farther than he ever wanted it to.