Wong Kar Wai’s award-winning international breakthrough, a ravishing evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments
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 soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.
The movie premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20 2000, was nominated for the Palme d’Or, Tony Leung won Best Actor ( the first Hong Kong actor to win the award). It is often voted as one of the greatest films of all time.
