In the Mood for Love (Criterion Collection, Widescreen)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 5, 2002
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Maggie Cheung & Tony "Big Tony" Leung | |
Performer: | Lai Chen, Rebecca Pan & Siu Ping-Lam | |
Directed by | Wong Kar-wai | |
Edited by | William Chang | |
Screenwriting by | Wong Kar-wai | |
Composition by | Michael Galasso | |
Produced by | Wong Kar-wai | |
Director of Photography: | Christopher Doyle & Mark Li |
Entertainment Reviews:
So skillfully does the director brings us to a state of breathless expectation that when he refuses to deliver the goods he almost seems to have invented a new form of perversion.
New Yorker
...Ravishing, confounding....Hypnotic....An odd, suspended-in-time feel...
Premiere
It's intelligently conceived, exquisitely crafted and flawlessly acted.
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Orlando Sentinel
Further complemented by the gentle lull of Nat King Cole songs, In The Mood For Love casts a dreamy and melancholic spell that remains unbroken long after the closing credits have rolled.
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AV Club
In the Mood for Love belongs to Cheung, whose beauty lights up the movie like the polar star lights up a winter sky. Cheung is one of the few modern actresses who understands her own physical beauty as an expressive instrument.
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Film Comment Magazine
There may be no more sensual director in the world than Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai, and In the Mood for Love is one of his richest and most melancholy works, a shadow dance of would-be lovers sketched in suggestions and intimations.
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Seanax.com
The settings are wilfully drab - narrow corridors, cramped apartments - yet the fragmentary, richly coloured images are dazzling.
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The Age (Australia)
Product Description:
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE centers around Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung), neighbors living in a crowded apartment building in 1962 Hong Kong. Both married to people who are always away, they spend many nights home alone. The two make each other's acquaintance and soon find that they have a lot in common: Both enjoy martial arts, frequent the same noodle stand--and eventually discover that their spouses are cheating on them. (Mo-Wan's wife is having an affair with Li-Zhen's husband.) Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates.
Wong Kar-Wai's seventh film reunites him with Leung and Cheung, who provide perfectly evocative performances as the two hesitant would-be lovers. A slight departure from his more recent films (in which he used hyperkinetic camera movements to reflect the frenetic pace of modern Hong Kong life), here Wong uses fixed shots and stages static tableaus to capture a lost historical moment. Yet the film is filled with Wong's unique style, with its lush pageantry of colors, sounds, and images. A thoughtful and provocative exploration of memory, tradition, historical change, inevitability, and love, this vivid period piece offers a rich cinematic experience.
Wong Kar-Wai's seventh film reunites him with Leung and Cheung, who provide perfectly evocative performances as the two hesitant would-be lovers. A slight departure from his more recent films (in which he used hyperkinetic camera movements to reflect the frenetic pace of modern Hong Kong life), here Wong uses fixed shots and stages static tableaus to capture a lost historical moment. Yet the film is filled with Wong's unique style, with its lush pageantry of colors, sounds, and images. A thoughtful and provocative exploration of memory, tradition, historical change, inevitability, and love, this vivid period piece offers a rich cinematic experience.
Keywords:
Classic
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Live-Action
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Romance
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Love Story
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History
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Infidelity
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Big City
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Theatrical Release
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Affairs
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Hong Kong
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1960s
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Couples
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Essential Cinema
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