The film wears its bleeding heart on its starched, impeccable sleeves and openly lures us into its swirl of emotions that does not let us go. It may seem old-fashioned today - even cloying - in a world of topical movies and discourse-loving cinema-goers but after 20 years, what Wong's film holds defiantly is what time cannot wear off. The melancholic desire between Chan and Chow (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung), who are neighbours in Hong Kong in 1962 and whose respective spouses are having an affair with each other, sets up a simple romantic story.
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The movie gives you a high, a visual and sentimental vertigo achieved by the near-perfect chemistry of texture, rhythm, colour, movement and sound. Today, In The Mood For Love is remembered mainly because it is a beautiful and heartbreaking tale. In 1997, Wong's Happy Together, about two lovers from Hong Kong who drift apart during a trip to Argentina, roused critics with its loose cadence and sun-dripped desolation. Well, we tend to be less excitable than Quentin in general but we understand his gushing.
While Christopher Doyle's sensuous cinematography - the way the coil of cigarette smoke or the hem of a cheongsam turns into a relic of lost romance - became the definition of cinematic beauty in the years that followed, back in 1994, Wong's Chungking Express was one of the hippest movies in the world and even Quentin Tarantino said that he cried his eyes out because the film reminded him of why he loved movies so much. In The Mood For Love was a sensation when it first came out in 2000, making Wong a modern master who helped elevate the status of Asian cinema to its peak. In case you need a reason to go back to the cinema, this is hands-down it. Now, the heart is beating again and the dream is being projected on the big screen some 20 years after the film first stunned audiences at Cannes and launched a wave of copycats around Asia.įor the first time in Bangkok, In The Mood For Love is having a theatrical release at the House Samyan - along with four other films by Wong that will roll out over the next month - and it has been digitally restored to 4K quality.
Drenched with desire, Wong Kar-wai's In The Mood For Love feels like a plush, vivid dream lodged in the deepest recess of a lover's heart.
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