In the mood for love = Hua yang nian hua

Author

Kar-wai Wong

Call Number

• BLU-RAY FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Blu-ray version.

Languages

In Cantonese, with English subtitles.

Performers

Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man Yuk.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (98 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and brief language.

Summary

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen 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 secured a place in the cinematic canon, and is a milestone in Wong's redoubtable career.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2000.

This disc was released as part of the Criterion Collection box set World of Wong Kar Wai.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Wong Kar Wai ; program from 2012 on In the Mood for Love's soundtrack.