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- 20th Century60s
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In the Mood for Love, 2000
Cantonese, Shanghainese, French
Hong Kong, France
Profile of In the Mood for Love
In the Mood for Love can be described as contemplative, gloomy, and stylized. The plot revolves around infidelity, a love affair, and themes of unfulfillment. The main genres are drama, foreign, and romance. In terms of style, In the Mood for Love is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. In the Mood for Love is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. It is located in Hong Kong. It takes place in the 1960s. In the Mood for Love has received attention for being an award winner. Note that it involves profanity.
Summary of In the Mood for Love
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.
Details
| Language: | Cantonese, Shanghainese, French |
| Country: | Hong Kong, France |
| Release date: | 2 February 2001 |
| Runtime: | 98 min |
| Awards: | Cannes |
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as Su Li-zhen - Mrs. Chan
as Chow Mo-wan
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Rolling Stone
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- by: Peter Travers
The New York Times
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- by: A.O. Scott
