Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) move into neighbouring 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 musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past 25 years of cinema.
In the Mood for Wong
Renowned for his expressive use of colour, music, cinematography and fragmented storytelling, Wong Kar-wai transforms familiar genres such as romance and crime cinema into deeply personal reflections on human relationships.
Director Wong Kar-wai Year 2000 Language Cantonese with English subtitles Cast Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping