In the Mood For Love

by Wong Kar Wai

2000 | Hong Kong, China | 1h38 | M12 

A delicate portrait of an unconventional love story. Framed by Wong Kar Wai’s sublime color palette and intimate slow-motions, the film travels through the enigmatic gazes of two individuals who, after moving into the same building with their absent partners, begin to believe that their respective spouses are having an affair. In their loneliness and boredom, Chow and Su become closer as they make peace with their romantic failures. A profound exploration of chance, emptiness and loneliness, accompanied by Shigeru Umebayashi’s melancholy soundtrack, In the Mood For Love is Wong Kar Wai’s most emblematic and impressive work.

With Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung and Ping Lam Siu