In the Mood for Love

Friday, June 28 - Thursday, August 8, 2024

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring 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 decade of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career. A Janus Films release.

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Previously screened as part of our retrospective The World of Wong Kar Wai, from August 26 – September 15, 2022.

• Country Hong Kong, France
• Language In Cantonese with English subtitles
• Year 2000
• Running Time 98 minutes
• Distributor Janus
• Director Wong Kar Wai
• Cast Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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