• Wong Kar Wai: In the Mood for Love, 2000

  • Wong Kar Wai: In the Mood for Love, 2000

  • Wong Kar Wai: In the Mood for Love, 2000

In the Mood for Love

(Fa yeung nin wa)

featuring

Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Siu Ping Lam, Rebecca Pan,

Few films capture the essence of romance and melancholy like Wong’s In the Mood for Love, a work of pure sensuality that follows two neighbors in the early 1960s (Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai) “in the mood for love,” yet too proper to act on it. The film’s physical grace is supplied by Cheung and Leung, both luminously attired in some of the most fabulous outfits ever assembled, while its mood rises from the camerawork of Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bin—which lingers on hands, hips, and silhouettes—and all of the moments that could have led, but never do, to love. 

Jason Sanders
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Wong Kar Wai
Cinematographer
  • Christopher Doyle
  • Mark Lee Ping Bin
Language
  • Cantonese
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 98 mins
Source
  • Janus Films

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