Detailed item info | Movie description | IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE centers around Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung), neighbors living in a crowded apartment building in 1962 Hong Kong. Both married to people who are always away, they spend many nights home alone. The two make each other's acquaintance and soon find that they have a lot in common: Both enjoy martial arts, frequent the same noodle stand--and eventually discover that their spouses are cheating on them. (Mo-Wan's wife is having an affair with Li-Zhen's husband.) Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates.
Wong Kar-Wai's seventh film reunites him with Leung and Cheung, who provide perfectly evocative performances as the two hesitant would-be lovers. A slight departure from his more recent films (in which he used hyperkinetic camera movements to reflect the frenetic pace of modern Hong Kong life), here Wong uses fixed shots and stages static tableaus to capture a lost historical moment. Yet the film is filled with Wong's unique style, with its lush pageantry of colors, sounds, and images. A thoughtful and provocative exploration of memory, tradition, historical change, inevitability, and love, this vivid period piece offers a rich cinematic experience.
| | Credits | | Producer: | Kar-Wai Wong | | Cast: | Siu Ping-Lam |
| | Details | | Edition: | Criterion Collection; Widescreen | | Sound: | HiFi Sound, Stereo Sound, |
| | Notes | DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.66
Single Side - Dual Layer
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Ending
Deleted Scenes
Interview - 1. Wong Kar-wai - Director
Press Confereence
Traliers - 1. Orignial U.S. Theatrical Trailer
TV Spots
Essay
Galleiies/Text:
Photo Gallery
Biographies
Essay on Setting
Interactve Features:
Interactive Music Essay
| | Editorial reviews | "...This is an astonishingly rich and multi-layered film that is possibly the director's finest to date..." -- 4 out of 5 stars
Box Office - p.153 - Chris Wiegand (11/01/2000)
"...Haunting....[The stars] generate potent sexual chemistry..."
Movieline - p.32 - Stephen Farber (02/01/2001)
"...It dazzles....As mood goes, this reticent, remembered romance is quietly erotic, probing all those 'almost' spaces in an almost love affair. As cinematography goes, it's luscious..."
Entertainment Weekly - p.71 - Owen Glieberman (02/16/2001)
"...Ravishing, confounding....Hypnotic....An odd, suspended-in-time feel..."
Premiere - p.19 - Glenn Kenny (02/01/2001)
"...A swooningly cinematic exploration of romantic longing, both restrained and sensual, luxuriating in color, texture and sound, this film raises its fascination with enveloping atmosphere and suppressed emotion to a ravishing, almost hypnotic level..."
Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan (02/02/2001)
"...A lush story of unrequited love that looks the way its songs sound....The deep colors of film noir saturate the scenes..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (02/16/2001)
| | Awards | 2000 Cannes, Best Actor: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
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