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In the Mood for Love (4k Restoration)
25th Anniversary! 4K Restoration!
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Infernal Affairs, Chungking Express) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, Irma Vep, The Heroic Trio) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past 25 years of cinema.
Just ranked by the New York Times as one of the greatest films of the 21st century, In the Mood for Love endures not just as a monument to unfulfilled love, but as a bold experiment in cinematic mood—an exploration of what lingers in the spaces between what is said and what is felt.
Each screening will be followed by Wong Kar Wai’s never-before available short, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2001.
2000, 98 minutes, Hong Kong/France, In Cantonese, Shanghainese, French and Spanish with English subtitles, Directed by Wong Kar-Wai, Rated PG
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“Rapturously elegant and deeply sexy in a deliciously restrained way. One of the most romantic movies I have ever seen, right up there with "Brief Encounter" and "Casablanca."
– Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST -
“This enthralling, enigmatic, romantic drama from Asia's most influential auteur (Chungking Express) is an essay in appetite and inhibition.”
– Richard Corliss, TIME -
“It's a masterpiece, a sublime tone poem that shows what cinema is capable of when it tries to do more than just tell a story.”
– Peter Brunette, FILM.COM -
“Probably the most breathtakingly gorgeous film of the year, dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass romantic spirit that has been missing from the cinema forever.”
– A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
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