In the Mood for Love

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Winner of numerous awards including Best Actor at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, In the Mood for Love confirmed that Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai is a major figure in world cinema. As passionate as it is politely discreet, his film takes place in 1962 Hong Kong, where neighboring apartment dwellers Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) and Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) discover that their oft-absent spouses are having an affair. This realization parallels their own mutual attraction, but fidelity and decency ensure that their intimate bond remains unspoken though deeply understood. With a stealthy, eavesdropping camera style and a screenplay created through spontaneous on-set inspiration, Wong Kar-wai crafts an intricate, finely tuned platonic romance, enhancing its ambience with a kaleidoscope of color (most notably in Cheung's dazzling wardrobe of cheongsam dresses) and careful attention to character detail. Deservedly placed on many critics' top 10 lists, this elegant film should not be missed. --Jeff Shannon

I recently watched it. Another foreign film on IMDB's top 250 that I couldn't get into. I got a bit lost with the non-linear storytelling.

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[Griffin]

I recently watched it. Another foreign film on IMDB's top 250 that I couldn't get into. I got a bit lost with the non-linear storytelling.

I haven't seen this one, but I did watch Kar-wai's next film ("2046") and it was also non-linear and confusing.

 

[Griffin]

Finally got around to watching this a month ago.

Very slow paced and not all that easy to follow. But this is the kind of movie that stays with you, that has a greater effect on you after you watch it than while you're watching it. Some scenes seem very memorable and meaningful to me now, although they didn't seem that way when I was watching it, which is not unlike real life experiences. And this is sort of what the movie is getting at, I think.

There's a neat little verse near the end that I thought fit very well with the theme:

That era has passed.
Nothing that belonged to it exists any more.

He remembers those vanished years.
As though looking through a dusty window pane,
the past is something he could see, but not touch.
And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.