hkDVD DVDinfo - in the mood for love (2-disc / special edition) dvd - director wong kar-wai, script by wong kar-wai, producer wong kar-wai, cast: kelly lai chen,maggie cheung man-yuk,mama hu

In The Mood For Love (2-Disc / Special Edition)

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In The Mood For Love (2-Disc / Special Edition)

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Disc/Technical Information

Publisher: MeiAh
Audio: Cantonese/Mandarin (Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS)
Video: LetterBox
Subtitles: Chinese/English (disc 1 only)
Running Time: 98mins
Extras: Trailers / Interviews / Gown Showroom Release Year: 2000
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(Synopsis) LOVE stories don't have to guarantee sexual satisfaction. Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter would have died of shame if Trevor Howard had attempted to unhook her bra strap.

Wong Kar-wai has set self-imposed restrictions on the making of his new film, even tougher than Dogme's Luddite rule structure. Known as the Chinese Tarantino, his previous international hits (Chung King Express, Fallen Angels, Happy Together) have been cinematically daring and conspicuously violent.

He throws that away in an exercise of minimalist restraint. Essentially a two-hander, he allows actors no physical contact and revokes his license to shock.

Tony Leung is a journalist in Hong Kong, who rents a room with his wife in a family apartment. Next door, Maggie Cheung has done the same thing with her husband, who is almost always away on business.

As part of Kar-wai's game plan, neither the wife, nor the husband, is seen. They exist and are talked about, but never introduced.

Both Leung and Cheung's characters are painfully polite, which means you don't know what they're thinking. Even when it becomes obvious that their other halves are having an affair, it takes ages for either of them to respond. The idea of an emotional outburst would be unthinkable.

The film is so subtle and slow and internalized that it crystallizes into a thing of beauty. Longing has been choked by a thousand years of acceptable behavior. The cut of Cheung's dresses and the sheen of Leung's hair takes on an unexpected importance in what appears to be Kar-wai's experiment into the purity of unconsummated passion.

Director
Wong Kar-Wai

Script
Wong Kar-Wai

Producer
Wong Kar-Wai

Cast
Kelly Lai Chen
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk
Mama Hung
Rebecca Pan Di Hua
Roy Cheung Yiu-Yeung
Siu Ping-Lam
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Publisher: MeiAh
Audio: Cantonese/Mandarin (Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS)
Video: LetterBox
Subtitles: Chinese/English (disc 1 only)
Running Time: 98mins
Extras: Trailers / Interviews / Gown Showroom Release Year: 2000