Fa yeung nin wa/In The Mood for Love (2000) (Chinese)

July 15, 2007 · Posted in Chinese Movies, Drama, Romance

In Hong Kong, 1962, the editor Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and his wife, and the secretary Su Li-Zhen Chan (Maggie Cheung) and her husband simultaneously move to an old building. Each couple has just rented a room in apartments on the same floor. Their wife and husband stay most of the time away from home, and Chow and Li-Zhen have the same habits: they like kung-fu stories and noodles and soap from a restaurant nearby the building. Their close contact becomes friendship and a sort of platonic and repressed love. Later they realize that their mates are having an affair, Chow falls in love with Li-Zhen, but her shyness and probably repressed condition of married woman keeps her love in a platonic level. ‘In the Mood for Love’ is a very slow, beautiful, melancholic and romantic love story, with a wonderful photography and soundtrack and a very unusual edition.

Year Released: 2000
Director:Wong Kar Wai
Writer:Wong Kar Wai
Genre: Drama, Romance
Cast:Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ping Lam Siu, Rebecca Pan, Kelly Lai Chen, Man-Lei Chan, Zhi-gong Chen, Roy Cheung, Paulyn Sun, Tung Cho ‘Joe’ Cheung
Country:Hong Kong, France
Language:Cantonese, Shanghainese, French
Subtitles:English
Runtime:98 mins
IMDb link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/