In the movies, nobody is better at being alone than Tony Leung.
In 1994’s Chungking Express, the film that made him a global arthouse pin-up, he plays a police officer so overcome by loneliness, he stalks his apartment in nothing but underwear and a cigarette, talking to his own belongings to rouse the memory of past love. In 2002’s Infernal Affairs—the searing Hong Kong neo-noir Martin Scorsese later remade as The Departed—Leung is a weary mole isolated after a decade undercover in a ruthless triad, desperate for some semblance of normal life.
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