In The Mood For Love
A charming story with a simple plot. Tony Leung, a journalist in Hong Kong and Maggie Cheung, who lives with her husband are next door neighbors. They suddenly fall in wrong love. What will they do to hide it ?
20 July 1963, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
27 June 1962, Hong Kong
3 September 1933, Shanghai, China
11 September 1974, Singapore
20 September 1964, Hong Kong
22 February 1910, China
22 November 1890, Lille, Nord, France
29 December 1931, Shanghai, Republic of China
July 20, 1963 in Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
April 15, 2014
The tension between romantic attraction and sexual fulfillment builds to an almost unbearable intensity.
April 15, 2014
In the Mood is a love story told from the point of impact, at the heart, and no conventional resolution could be more profound.
August 14, 2012
The film is gorgeous, dripping with texture and sensuality and, well, mood.
April 15, 2014
Heat rises from the film like steam from its noodle bars. It's enough to make you giddy.
March 10, 2017
There may be no more sensual director in the world than Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai, and In the Mood for Love is one of his richest and most melancholy works, a shadow dance of would-be lovers sketched in suggestions and intimations.
April 15, 2014
So skillfully does the director brings us to a state of breathless expectation that when he refuses to deliver the goods he almost seems to have invented a new form of perversion.
April 15, 2014
It's intelligently conceived, exquisitely crafted and flawlessly acted.
April 15, 2014
In the Mood for Love is a beautifully understated and heart-wrenching story of unrequited passion.
April 15, 2014
It bleeds color and passion like a Monet in an impressionistic, visually ravishing tale of unrequited love between two repressed souls.
August 14, 2012
Director Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong's most romantic filmmaker, is known for his excesses, and in that sense the film's spareness represents a bold departure.
April 15, 2014
As a study of people determined to remain more true to their values than to their emotions, In the Mood for Love offers an experience like few other films of recent memory.
April 15, 2014
Further complemented by the gentle lull of Nat King Cole songs, In The Mood For Love casts a dreamy and melancholic spell that remains unbroken long after the closing credits have rolled.
