Taking place in Hong Kong of 1962, a melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other.
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France
Cannes Film Festival
Spain
San Sebastián Film Festival
South Korea
Pusan International Film Festival (Closing Film)
South Korea
Busan International Film Festival (Restored Version)
Hong Kong
South Korea15
IrelandPG
UKPG
FranceU
GreeceK
Russian Federation18+
USAPG
Spain7
Brazil14
NetherlandsAL
AustraliaG
LithuaniaN-7
Turkey
Czechia12+
Thailand
Russian Federation18+
Ukraine16+
Italy
Hong Kong
FinlandS
France
Greece
NetherlandsAL
Germany6
France
NetherlandsAL
Australia
Brazil
Czechia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Ireland
Italy
Lithuania
Netherlands
Russian Federation
South Korea
Spain
Thailand
Turkey
UK
USA
Ukraine
I remember back when this girl and I were still together, she once asked me when I fell in love with her. I told her it was like a house you pass every day on the way to work. One day, you notice a for sale sign on an empty lot. Another day you drive by and you notice they've laid the foundations. Another day, the walls are up, and another day there's a roof, a garage, and finally a family living inside. You don't know exactly when all this happened; you just looked one day and noticed it was there.
I tell you this story because it reminds me of a line from In the Mood for Love --…
The scenes where the main song of the film appears and the protagonists come and go in slow motion, are a cinematographic orgasm rarely achieved in the history of the cinema
"In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn't want to share... You know what they did?"
"No idea."
"They went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud. And leave the secret there forever."
"What a pain! I'd just go get laid."
Still probably the definitive cinematic depiction of romantic longing and loneliness, and its painful relationship to the passage of time. Every texture, color, composition, song, and overall stylistic flourish contributes to an intense mood of lush melancholy. Also helps that most of this movie is just two of the hottest Hong Kong actors of all time sitting around beautiful mise-en-scène in beautiful clothing, smoking, and sensually eating rice and noodles.
For something called In The Mood For Love, this is one of the loneliest films I’ve ever seen. Pure artistry.
p.s. those dresses were an absolute SERVE
Among other things, this is a film about how hard it is to watch movies all the time when you’re married.
“It is a restless moment…”
Writing about “In the Mood for Love” has always been a bit like dancing about architecture. “If we could tell a film,” a frustrated Jafar Panahi once raged under house arrest, “then why make a film?” If we could express in words the heart-stopping beauty of Wong Kar Wai’s sensually choreographed shadow tango (or bottle the shudder of feeling that runs up our spines at the first strains of “Yumeji’s Theme”), he wouldn’t have felt compelled to shoot it. For 15 months straight. To an extent that’s true of all Wong’s work, which is singularly cinematic even in its shortcomings. But the feeling is perhaps most palpable with “In the Mood for Love,” which was…
