In the Mood for Love

Now showing. Ends January 21st.

(Hong Kong / 2000 / Directed by Wong Kar Wai)

Winner, Best Actor (Tony Leung), Technical Grand Prize (Christopher Doyle, Mark Lee, William Chang), Cannes Film Festival, 2000

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) 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 soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.

This 4K digital restoration was undertaken from the 35mm original camera negative by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with L’Immagine Ritrovata and Jet Tone. It was supervised and approved by Wong Kar Wai.

PG / 1 hr 39 mins.
In Cantonese and Shanghainese with English subtitles