In the Mood for Love (2000)

Doors: 6:30pmShow: 7:30pm
(98min/color/Cantonese and Shanghainese w/English subtitles, DCP)
Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and Ping Lam Siu.
Directed by Wong Kar Wai.

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) 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 been a major stylistic influence on the past decade of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.