IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE | Wong Kar-wai | 2000 | In Cantonese, Shanghainese, French, and Spanish with English subtitles | 98 minutes | PG (for thematic elements and brief language) | DCP
“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. Screening in a director-supervised 4K restoration.” —Janus Films
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IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2001 | Wong Kar-wai | 2001 | 9 minutes | NR | DCP
“Initially conceived as one third of a triptych about food, In the Mood for Love was expanded into a stand-alone feature that won immediate recognition as a modern-day classic. Another third—
Plays as part of In the Mood for Love 25th Anniversary Edition. In theaters only!
