In the Mood for Love

Year:2000

Section:Movies

Language: Chinese (Cantonese)

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In the Mood for Love

I shall not bore you with the list of awards and honors this film won (though it did propel Tony Leung to long-deserved international acclaim), nor bombard you with trivia about how the title came about and what other movies the leads were filming concurrently with this. Instead, let me try to (for one moment) sketch what I think lies at the heart of this movie. Director Wong Ka-Wai, as well as the...

In the Mood for Love

Being an ardent fan of Tony Leung Chiu Wai, I could not forgo this movie that brought him to the height of his career, a Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. The movie is directed by Wong Kar Wai, the director who is renowned for being fussy and at times difficult to understand. Even Tony Leung admitted in an interview that he did not get the script before the filming started. So...