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In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love

Fa yeung nin wa

Wong Kar-wai


  • Country: Hong Kong/France
  • Year: 2000
  • Language: Cantonese
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  • Runtime: 98 min.

Fusing elements from the European art film and American melodrama to create a new and profoundly influential mode of Asian cinema, Wong Kar-wai's intoxicating tale of unconsummated passion transforms a premise ideal for a sex comedy—two gorgeous people (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung) in 1950s Hong Kong whose spouses are lovers deciding to undertake a tentative affair of their own—into a haunting, unfathomable mystery of quiet yearning and secret love.

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screening times

    • Friday October 22
    • 11:59:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3
    • Friday November 12
    • 7:45:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

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official description

Fusing elements from the European art film and American melodrama to create a new and profoundly influential mode of Asian cinema, Wong Kar-wai’s intoxicating tale of unconsummated passion transforms a premise ideal for a sex comedy—two gorgeous people (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung) in 1950s Hong Kong whose spouses are lovers deciding to undertake a tentative affair of their own—into a haunting, unfathomable mystery of quiet yearning and secret love. Designed with the director’s typical lushness—the ‘50s clothes and décor surrounding the equally beautiful Cheung and Leung make the film almost a moving fashion spread—and infused with the tender romanticism that has become his trademark, Wong Kar-wai’s wholly non-ironic revival of the classic melodrama rediscovers the sincerity and powerful emotion at the genre’s heart.

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