In the Mood for Love

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Wong Kar Wai delivers an exquisite melodrama about two married neighbours who gradually fall in love.

  • Director

    Wong Kar Wai

  • With

    Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

  • Hong Kong-France 2000. 98min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    PG

  • Cantonese with English subtitles

In early 1960s Hong Kong, Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move with their spouses into neighbouring apartments. A hotel room, the symbolic 2046, becomes a refuge for Mo-wan and Li-zhen feelings as their relationship gets closer. Kar Wai’s exquisite film – perfectly designed, shot and scored – is visually and emotionally ravishing; a heartbreaking masterpiece of longing, desire and the pressure of societal expectations.

+ In the Mood for Love 2001

Hong Kong-France 2001. Director Wong Kar Wai. 9min. Digital. English subtitles