#0000D/#147: KAR-Wai, Wong: In The Mood For Love [2000] {Hong Kong}

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KAR-Wai, Wong {Hong Kong}
In The Mood For Love [2000]
Spine #0000D/Spine #147
Blu-ray
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Chueung 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 betwen 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 redoub table career.

98 minutes
Color
Monaural
in Cantonese and Shanghainese
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2021

Director/Writer


Special thanks/quoted author: Liu Yi-chang.

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

#0000D: Seventy-six page booklet featuring an essay by John Powers, Director’s Note, and About the Restorations.

#147: Fifty-page booklet featuring Director’s Statement, Intersection by Liu Yi-chang and an Liner Notes by Li Cheuk-to.

Commentary

#0000D:

Program 1

In which Wong answers questions submitted by authors André Aciman and Jonathan Lethem; filmmakers Sofia Coppola, Rian Johnson, Lisa Joy, and Chloé Zhao; cinematographers Phillippe Le Sourd and Bradford Young; and filmmakers and founders/creative directors of Rodarte Kate and Laura Mulleavy.

Extended version

Of The Hand, a 2004 short film by Wong, available in the U.S. for the first time.

Interview and “cinema lesson”

With Wong from 2001.

Several programs

Featuring interviews with Wong; cinematographer Doyle; actors Cheung and Leung, Chang Chen, Faye Wong, and Ziyi Zhang; and others.

Program 2

From 2012 on In The Mood For Love’s soundtrack.

Deleted scenes,

Alternate endings, behind-the-scenes footage, a promo reel, music videos, and trailers.

#0000D/#147:

Hua Yang De Nian Hua

A 2000 short film by Wong Kar-wai. 

#147: 

Deleted scenes

With director’s commentary
The music

Of In The Mood For Love, presented in an interactive essay.
In The Mood For Love

Wong Kar-wai’s documentary of the making of the film.

Interviews

With Wong Kar-wai.
Toronto International Film Festival

Press conference with stars Cheung and Leung.

Essay

By film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the movie’s unique setting.

Trailers, TV spots, electronic press kit & promotional concepts

Photo gallery

Biographies of key cast & crew

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

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