Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo Wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Su Li Zhen (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) 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 soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.
FILM INFO
- Hong Kong
- 2000
- 98 minutes
- Color
- 1.66:1
- Cantonese
- Spine #147
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 4K digital restoration with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, both supervised and approved by director Wong Kar Wai
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Documentary from 2001 by Wong, chronicling the making of the film
- Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong
- Interview and cinema lesson from 2001 featuring Wong
- Press conference from the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival with actors Maggie Cheung Man Yuk and Tony Leung Chiu Wai
- Interview from 2012 with critic Tony Rayns about the soundtrack
- Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Wong
- Music video
- Trailer
- PLUS: A new essay by novelist Charles Yu
Cover by Ness Higson
11-01-2022
