In The Mood For Love DVD

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE centers around Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung), neighbors living in a crowded apartment building in 1962 Hong Kong. Both married to people who are always away, they spend many nights home alone. The two make each other's acquaintance and soon find that they have a lot in common: Both enjoy martial arts, frequent the same noodle stand--and eventually discover that their spouses are cheating on them. (Mo-Wan's wife is having an affair with Li-Zhen's husband.) Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates. Wong Kar-Wai's seventh film reunites him with Leung and Cheung, who provide perfectly evocative performances as the two hesitant would-be lovers. A slight departure from his more recent films (in which he used hyperkinetic camera movements to reflect the frenetic pace of modern Hong Kong life), here Wong uses fixed shots and stages static tableaus to capture a lost historical moment. Yet the film is filled with Wong's unique style, with its lush pageantry of colors, sounds, and images. A thoughtful and provocative exploration of memory, tradition, historical change, inevitability, and love, this vivid period piece offers a rich cinematic experience.

Theatrical Release: February 2, 2001 (NY). February 9, 2001 (LA). February 16, 2001 (NATIONAL). The film was shot on location in Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Angkor Wat. The year in which the story begins, 1962, is the year Wong Kar-Wai and his family first moved to Hong Kong from Shanghai. Shooting for the film was contracted to last three months yet extended to a year and a half, partly because of the Asian economic crisis and partly as a result of Wong Kar-Wai's improvisational style. The cast and crew had four different wrap parties. Both stars of the film managed to shoot other films during the year and a half it took to shoot IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai acted in the caper film TOKYO RAIDERS, and Maggie Cheung appeared in the San Francisco-set romantic comedy SAUSALITO. Wong Kar-Wai first wanted to call his film SECRETS but was told there were too many films with the word "secrets" in the title. He came upon the eventual title while listening to Bryan Ferry's cover of ...

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