In the Mood for Love

Hong Kong 1962: Chau and his wife moves into a new important where Chau meets Li-Chun who moves in the same day. Their respective partners are away the whole time and they spend more and more time together. Gradually, Chau and Li-Chun realise that their spouses perhaps have something to hide.

With this film, Wong Kar-wai cemented his position as perhaps the brightest star on the Asian film firmament. In addition to being an aesthetic pleasure, it is a deeply romantic film. The relationship between Chau and Li-Chun is depicted with a discreet dignity. All proper action happens between the scenes, and as usual in Wong, form and content combine into a higher unity. tfk

FFS Archive 2007

Director

Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work. He was the first Chinese director to win the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, for Happy Together in 1997, and has been president of the jury in both Cannes and Berlin.

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