Sense & Sensibility

In the Mood for Love

Credits

Original title :

Fa yeung nin wah

Country :

Hong Kong

Year :

2000

Director :

Wong Kar Wai

Version :

vostEN

Duration :

99 minutes

Format :

digital | 4K Restoration

Actors :

Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung

Awards :

Meilleure interprétation masculine (Leung), Prix de la Commission Superieure Technique ; Cannes 2000

synopsis

Hong Kong, 1962. Mrs. Chan rents a room. On the same day, on the same floor, Mr. Chow moves in. Their spouses are often absent. One day, Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan discover that their respective spouses are having an affair…

Excites us with words not spoken, passions not played out. A mood story more than a love story, it’s all about sustaining a state of exquisite melancholy in the face of desire.

Wall Street Journal

A ravishing evocation of an unconsummated romantic relationship put through an emotional and cultural ringer, a retread of sorts through Happy Together territory, this time without the kinetic patchwork of jarring film stocks that have become Wong trademarks since Chungking Express. Ravishing beyond mortal words.

Slant Magazine