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In the Mood for Love (2000)
2xDVD9 | ISO | NTSC 16:9 | Cover + Booklet | 01:38:45 | 8,02 Gb + 7,75 Gb
Audio: #1 Cantonese AC3 5.0 @ 448 Kbps; #2 Score AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Drama, Romance | The Criterion Collection #147
2xDVD9 | ISO | NTSC 16:9 | Cover + Booklet | 01:38:45 | 8,02 Gb + 7,75 Gb
Audio: #1 Cantonese AC3 5.0 @ 448 Kbps; #2 Score AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Drama, Romance | The Criterion Collection #147
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Stars: Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are polite and formal—until a discovery about their respective spouses sparks an intimate bond. At once delicately mannered and visually stunning, Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments in time.
Whispers in doorways. Long, longing looks. Desire at war with propriety. This enthralling, enigmatic, romantic drama from Asia's most influential auteur (Chungking Express) is an essay in appetite and inhibition. In 1962 Hong Kong, two neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) learn that their spouses are having an affair with each other. Slowly they are drawn into their own web of resentment, guilt and lust. Do the cuckolds have their own affair? That is for the viewer to judge. What's beyond dispute is the artful evocation of a world of glamour and deceit, humidity and heartbreak–it's the year's first unmissable film event. Recommended to anyone who's ever felt the fear and lure of falling in love.Richard Corliss
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I have yet to find a review that does justice to In the Mood for Love . Perhaps the visual architecture of the film defies words. Perhaps putting into words moods, essences or meshes of the afternoon are impossible. But there is much to say about Kar- Wai WONG's film. First of all the choice of music, three pieces sung in Spanish by Nat King Cole (Aquellos Ojos Verdes ,Te Guiero Dijiste, Quizas Quizas Quizas) that fit timely into the period of the film, the 1960’s; the Yumeji and Angkor Wat theme by Shigeru Umebayashi, played several times in the film and a haunting melody by Michael Galasson.
Violins tactilely pull at your heartstrings and induce memories of all the unrequited love affairs or unhappy memories you ever had. Add exquisite cinematography by Chris Doyle who shot half of the film. Clearly fetishized handbag, ties and bedroom slippers play important minor roles, as do thermoses of noodles, rotary telephones, tastefully wrapped presents, and handkerchiefs for brushing off sudden rain. Some of the scenes are shot in slow motion, the comings and goings of characters with nothing but work, rain, soup and infidelity to keep them going.![In the Mood for Love (2000) [The Criterion Collection #147] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/63/a1/001ca163_medium.jpeg)
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This is the story of Mrs. Chan (Man-Yuk) Maggie Cheung and Mr. Chow (Chiu-Wa) (played by Tony Leung, awarded best actor at Cannes, 2000) who rent rooms from two families in Hong Kong. Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow turn to each other for consolement for their unfaithful spouses.
The claustrophobia of their living situation and work is shot with intricate framing of the settings and minimal movement of characters, often in slow motion, crossing the square grids like blurs of animus. If the plot wears thin on you, you can always savor a skewed shoe as Galasson’s strings send shivers up your spine. You can meditate on the dresses of Mrs. Chan), all high neck, with short sleeves, a tightly fitted bodice, and a multitude of different motifs and fabrics. You can gaze on Mr. slicked back hair, his cool and crisp white office dress shirts, and polished black shoes. You can wonder if they ever had sex at all in the room Mr. Chow eventually rents in order to write. Some publicity stills suggests so. Curiously, the high marks for eroticism stem from these missing images. While its true that we are concerned with their love, we are also reminded of the pain of connection when circumstances in society keep us apart. And the ease with which people do actually meet in most films seems like a falsehood. More than not, most of us do suffer in love, which is why this film touches our hearts profoundly.Moira Sullivan for Movie Magazine International, Stockholm Sweden
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The sexiest movie of the year, it turns out, is PG-rated.
That's because Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai knows how to make a meal out of suggestion, how to light a passionate fire without wood or matches. Of course, the effect of "In the Mood for Love" depends on your own sensibilities. Either you'll find a soft-spoken, devastatingly handsome man smoking in the rain and pining for the woman of his dreams unbearably sexy, or you won't.
I think you will, especially after watching this couple: The man is played by Hong Kong actor Tony Leung (also known as Chiu-wai), whose debonair, understated manner suggests a combination of Alain Delon, Bryan Ferry and Edward R. Murrow.![In the Mood for Love (2000) [The Criterion Collection #147] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/65/a1/001ca165_medium.jpeg)
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The woman of his moody infatuation is played by Maggie Cheung (a k a Man-yuk), whose intelligence, beauty and poise go together like gin, dry vermouth and a twist of lemon.
In Wong's deft, achingly frustrating fantasy, what happens between these two – or more accurately, what doesn't – is all mood. Although there's a definite story here, the plot line devolves into an abstracted symphony of rain-swept streets, billowy curtains and foggy cab windows.![In the Mood for Love (2000) [The Criterion Collection #147] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/66/a1/001ca166_medium.jpeg)
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It takes a simple story, the restraint and growing passion between two people whose spouses are cheating on them, and plays endless blue notes into the steamy morning hours. "In the Mood for Love," which won an actor's prize (for Leung) at Cannes, and a technical prize, which includes editing, cinematography and production design, is more than a romance. It's about the jazz of the heart.
In Hong Kong, 1962, a city where indigenous Cantonese mingle with immigrants from mainland China, newspaper editor Chow Mo-wan (Leung) moves into a modest apartment, next to Su Li-zhen (Cheung), another new renter.![In the Mood for Love (2000) [The Criterion Collection #147] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/67/a1/001ca167_medium.jpeg)
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Both are married and live in a fairly cramped building dominated by its hearty, chatty landlady, Mrs. Suen (Chinese pop star Rebecca Pan). Yet, they often find themselves alone. Li-zhen's husband, who works for a Japanese company, and Mo-wan's wife, a hotel receptionist, always seem to be away from home.
It doesn't take long before Mo-wan and Li-zhen both realize, simultaneously, their spouses have become romantically involved with each other.
Their common situation draws them together, although they maintain an almost painful politeness. But as they spend more time with each other, sharing their feelings of betrayal and anguish, they slip into an indefinable intimacy.![In the Mood for Love (2000) [The Criterion Collection #147] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/68/a1/001ca168_medium.jpeg)
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All of a sudden, there's a dangerous closeness between them. Although there's technically nothing between them, they're forced to tiptoe around their landlady and her mah-jongg cronies to avoid gossip. Admit it or not, Mo-wan and Li-zhen seem to be slipping into an affair.
"We can't be like them," says Li-zhen, referring to their dishonorable spouses. And that utterance flutters like a defiant banner – but also a romantic jinx – between them.![In the Mood for Love (2000) [The Criterion Collection #147] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/69/a1/001ca169_medium.jpeg)
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While these determinedly chaste lovers hover around each other, Wong Kar-wai, whose seven extraordinary films include "Ashes of Time," "As Tears Go By" and "Chungking Express," goes about his visually brilliant business.
Two of his crew – cinematographer Christopher Doyle and production designer-costumer-editor William Chang – have worked with Wong for most of his career; and Leung and Cheung have appeared, separately or together, in most of his films. There's a creative family at work here, forging an inimitable Wong style with unforgettable sets, ingenious cinematography (including a wonderfully playful dinner scene that makes us consider the romantic symbolism in two plates of meat and potatoes) and, of course, the pent-up relationship between two vulnerable souls. And if all this doesn't put you in the mood, then I can write no more.Desson Howe, The Washington Post
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Edition Details:
DISC ONE:
- Alternate Ending and Deleted scenes with director’s commentary (34 min)
- The music of In the Mood for Love, presented in an interactive essay
- Hua Yang de Nian Hua, a short film by Wong Kar-wai (1.33:1, DD 1.0 Mono, 3:00)
DISC TWO:
- @ In the Mood for Love, a documentary about the making of the film (51:00)
- 2 Interviews with Wong Kar-wai at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival (38:00)
- Toronto International Film Festival press conference with stars Maggie Cheung Man-yuk & Tony Leung Chiu-wai (43:00)
- "Hong Kong, 1960’s", essay by film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the film’s unique setting
- Trailers, TV spots
- Electronic Press Kit "A note on the making of In the Mood for Love" with behind-the-scenes footage and interview material with the cast and director (18 min)
- "The Searcher: Wong Kar-Wai", a comprehensive (and chronological) text-based essay covering the director’s career, with still photos of the director, production photos and posters from his films, and 3 trailers for Ashes of Time, Fallen Angels, Happy Together
- Photo gallery
- Biographies of key cast & crew
- 48-page booklet featuring the short story "Intersection", by Liu Yi-chang that inspired the film, a director’s statement and liner notes by Li Cheuk-To
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