#0000D/#147: KAR-Wai, Wong: In The Mood For Love [2000] {Hong Kong}
KAR-Wai, Wong {Hong Kong}
Deleted scenes
Wong Kar-wai’s documentary of the making of the film.
Interviews
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
in Cantonese and Shanghainese
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2021
Director/Writer
Special thanks/quoted author: Liu Yi-chang.
Wong Kar-wai was 42 when he wrote and directed In the Mood for Love.
Other Wong Kar-wai films in the Collection:
#0000D: As Tears Go By (1988)
#0000D: Days Of Being Wild (1990)
#0000D/#453: Chungking Express (1994)
#0000D: Fallen Angels (1995)
#0000D: Happy Together (1997)
#0000D: 2046 (2004)
The Film
Other Wong Kar-wai films in the Collection:
#0000D: As Tears Go By (1988)
#0000D: Days Of Being Wild (1990)
#0000D/#453: Chungking Express (1994)
#0000D: Fallen Angels (1995)
#0000D: Happy Together (1997)
#0000D: 2046 (2004)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
#0000D: Seventy-six page booklet featuring an essay by John Powers, Director’s Note, and About the Restorations.
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The ExtrasThe 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:
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
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
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
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