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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD EAN: 9781559409278 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 1559409274 Label: Criterion Languages: Manufacturer: Criterion MPN: DCC1580D Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Criterion Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 05, 2002 Running Time: 98 minutes Studio: Criterion Theatrical Release Date: 2000 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Winner of numerous awards including Best Actor at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, In the Mood for Love confirmed that Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai is a major figure in world cinema. As passionate as it is politely discreet, his film takes place in 1962 Hong Kong, where neighboring apartment dwellers Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) and Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) discover that their oft-absent spouses are having an affair. This realization parallels their own mutual attraction, but fidelity and decency ensure that their intimate bond remains unspoken though deeply understood. With a stealthy, eavesdropping camera style and a screenplay created through spontaneous on-set inspiration, Wong Kar-wai crafts an intricate, finely tuned platonic romance, enhancing its ambience with a kaleidoscope of color (most notably in Cheung's dazzling wardrobe of cheongsam dresses) and careful attention to character detail. Deservedly placed on many critics' top 10 lists, this elegant film should not be missed. --Jeff Shannon Description: Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are polite and formal-until a discovery about their respective spouses sparks an intimate bond. At once delicately mannered and visually stunning, Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments in time. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Best movie ever !!!If you're a real movie fan, this is one of the movies that you must see. This criterion collection edition of this classic is incredible, excelent extras and great package. The only problem was that it arrived 2 weeks later than the date it was supposed to. Rating: - Extraordinary MovieThis movie is simply enchanting. The director's consummate use of color, the musical score, and the detailed attention to the historical setting -- 60's Hong Kong -- was sublime. The main characters are statuesquely beautiful and Mrs Chan, in particular, is delectable in her body hugging dresses (qipao). The real thrill is the story line: erotic, without being coarse, passionate and sensual without being prurient, provocatively sexy and yet moral. Its a refreshing change from the lascivious drivel ... Read More Rating: - The seductive quality of restraintThere are only three romance films I will view time and time again - Casablanca, Cinema Paradiso and In the Mood for Love. To dismiss the third as simply a pointless art house film is, in my opinion, undeserved because I regard it as a prime example of cinematic art at its best and most accessible. A reviewer has termed the appreciation of this film as "cult following," and if that's the case, count me in as a cult member. The story opens with a married woman, Chan Su Li-zhen, moving ... Read More Rating:  - Worth watching just to see Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung.It's a shame the story idea for IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE never fully develops because this film has a lot going for it: a talented director, it's nicely photographed (almost in a film noir style with lush colors and Maggie Cheung's beautiful dresses standing out against the darker backgrounds) and great performances (especially by Tony Leung who is quickly becoming one of my favorite actors), but it all goes nowhere...slowly. Tony and his wife and Maggie and her husband both rent a room in neighboring ... Read More Rating:  - Started to like it, then...I immediately fell in love with this film. It was beautifully acted, and photographed. But that later changed. I loved the story of the 2 main characters and wanted to see their relationship develop (by either moving forward or even backward). Instead (about half way through the film), it was as if the director had run out of ideas. The plot/film just ran out of steam. The music cues (once beautiful) now became unintentioinally funny. The slow pacing became more exposed and obvious (since the story simply ... Read More |
