In the Mood for Love

  • Su Li-zhen played by Maggie Cheung Man-yuk in a red overcoat dreaming about love
  • In Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love drama, Chow Mo-wan (by Tony Leung Chiu-wai) dreaming about his neighbor as he is in the mood for love
  • In Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love drama, Chow Mo-wan (by Tony Leung Chiu-wai) runs into his neighbor Su Li-zhen in a flowered dress (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) as they fall in love with each other

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.

Runtime
1h 38m
Year
2000
Director
Wong Kar Wai
Format
2D Digital
Language
In Cantonese with English subtitles
Categories
Featured
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