Synopsis

This screening has been postponed to a later date due to technical issues. UCR ARTS will announce the rescheduled date in the coming weeks.

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 25 years of cinema.

In the Mood for Love will be followed by In the Mood for Love 2001, a previously-unseen 9 minute short film by Wong Kar Wai.

Trailer

Film Details

Director: Wong Kar Wai
Studio: Janus
Running Time: 98 minutes
Country: Hong Kong
Release Year: 2000
Rated: Unrated

Reviews

“In the Mood for Love is probably the most breathtakingly gorgeous film of [2000], dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass romantic spirit that has been missing from the cinema forever.” – Elvis Mitchell, New York Times