“In the Mood for Love is probably the most breathtakingly gorgeous film of the year, dizzy with a nose-against-the-glass romantic spirit that has been missing from the cinema forever.”
Hong Kong, 1962, and young couple Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and his wife move into a new apartment. But Chow's spouse is often away on business, and before long the lonely Chow makes the acquaintance of the alluring Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk), whose own significant other seems similarly preoccupied... A mood story more than a love story, Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love sustains a state of exquisite melancholy in the face of unspoken desire...
