In the Mood for Love (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) PG
Feel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode.
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- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 5, 2018
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Maggie Cheung & Tony "Little 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:
...Haunting....[The stars] generate potent sexual chemistry...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Rating: 4/4 --
It is a movie of feelings, of words left unsaid, a film that is vibrantly alive, a sensual experience like no other.
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From the Front Row
Director Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong's most romantic filmmaker, is known for his excesses, and in that sense the film's spareness represents a bold departure.
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Chicago Reader
It's intelligently conceived, exquisitely crafted and flawlessly acted.
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Orlando Sentinel
The settings are wilfully drab - narrow corridors, cramped apartments - yet the fragmentary, richly coloured images are dazzling.
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The Age (Australia)
...A lush story of unrequited love that looks the way its songs sound....The deep colors of film noir saturate the scenes...
Chicago Sun-Times
This is the eroticism of restraint, where desire remains forever buried in secrecy, and in the past. It is also the story of a divided nation, with the body politic inscribed on two almost lovers kept apart.
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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:
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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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