In the Mood for Love (2000)
(Huayang Nianhua)
Country: HK/FR
Technical: col 98m
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung
Synopsis:
Hong Kong, 1962: perchance lodging nextdoor to one another, a man and woman whose respective spouses are conducting their own affair together embark on a platonic relationship that develops irresistibly into something deeper.
Review:
The most banal of premises acquires beauty and fascination, both from its unfamiliar cultural location and the director's peculiar brand of cinema: plot and character are improvised while photography and editing combine to produce a sleek formal puzzle. Once again music is repeated beyond what any western filmmaker would risk, becoming a mesmeric adjunct to the theme of a remembered past being a distant country. The incomplete, extemporised nature of much of the action will frustrate traditionalists but is more truthful than Now Voyager.
(Huayang Nianhua)
Country: HK/FR
Technical: col 98m
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung
Synopsis:
Hong Kong, 1962: perchance lodging nextdoor to one another, a man and woman whose respective spouses are conducting their own affair together embark on a platonic relationship that develops irresistibly into something deeper.
Review:
The most banal of premises acquires beauty and fascination, both from its unfamiliar cultural location and the director's peculiar brand of cinema: plot and character are improvised while photography and editing combine to produce a sleek formal puzzle. Once again music is repeated beyond what any western filmmaker would risk, becoming a mesmeric adjunct to the theme of a remembered past being a distant country. The incomplete, extemporised nature of much of the action will frustrate traditionalists but is more truthful than Now Voyager.
(Huayang Nianhua)
Country: HK/FR
Technical: col 98m
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung
Synopsis:
Hong Kong, 1962: perchance lodging nextdoor to one another, a man and woman whose respective spouses are conducting their own affair together embark on a platonic relationship that develops irresistibly into something deeper.
Review:
The most banal of premises acquires beauty and fascination, both from its unfamiliar cultural location and the director's peculiar brand of cinema: plot and character are improvised while photography and editing combine to produce a sleek formal puzzle. Once again music is repeated beyond what any western filmmaker would risk, becoming a mesmeric adjunct to the theme of a remembered past being a distant country. The incomplete, extemporised nature of much of the action will frustrate traditionalists but is more truthful than Now Voyager.