In the Mood for Love (2000)
Director: Wong Kar-wai Run Time: 99 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 2000
Starring: Kelly Lai Chen, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Siu Ping-lam, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Country: Hong Kong, China
Language: Cantonese, Shanghainese, French, Spanish
Screening as part of The World of Wong Kar Wai
About the film:
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past decade of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.
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