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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Kar Wai Wong (written by)
Release Date:
26 February 2001 (USA)
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Tagline:
Feel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode.
Plot:
A man and a woman move in to neighboring Hong Kong apartments and form a bond when they both suspect their spouses of extra-marital activities. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
Another 31 wins
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23 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(29 articles)
Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten
(From FilmExperience. 17 November 2009, 8:41 PM, PST)
Halfway House: In the Mood For a Nap
(From FilmExperience. 15 October 2009, 9:00 AM, PDT)
(From FilmExperience. 17 November 2009, 8:41 PM, PST)
Halfway House: In the Mood For a Nap
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User Comments:
The most disarming romance ever filmed.
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Maggie Cheung | ... | Su Li-zhen - Mrs. Chan | |
| Tony Leung Chiu Wai | ... | Chow Mo-wan | |
| Ping Lam Siu | ... | Ah Ping | |
| Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung | ... | Man living in Mr. Koo's apartment | |
| Rebecca Pan | ... | Mrs. Suen | |
| Kelly Lai Chen | ... | Mr. Ho (as Lai Chen) | |
| Man-Lei Chan | ... | Mr. Koo | |
| Tsi-Ang Chin | ... | Amah | |
| Roy Cheung | ... | Mr. Chan (voice) | |
| Paulyn Sun | ... | Mrs. Chow (voice) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Po-chun Chow | |||
| Kam-wah Koo | |||
| Hsien Yu | |||
Additional Details
Also Known As:
In the Mood for Love (France) (Hong Kong: English title) (UK) (USA)
Beijing Summer (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Flower Like Years (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Hua yang nian hua (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
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Beijing Summer (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Flower Like Years (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Hua yang nian hua (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for thematic elements and brief language.
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Runtime:
98 min | Poland:94 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:L |
Malaysia:U |
South Korea:15 |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:G |
Chile:TE |
Finland:S |
France:U |
Germany:6 |
Hong Kong:IIA |
Ireland:PG |
Netherlands:AL |
Norway:A |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:PG |
USA:PG
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Trivia:
Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2000 (#05).
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Goofs:
Continuity: Before Su Li-zhen bestowed her landlady with a electric rice cooker, there already was one sitting on the kitchen counter in an earlier scene.
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Quotes:
Chow Mo-wan:
That handbag I saw you with this evening... Where did you buy it?
Su Li-zhen Chan: Why do you ask?
Chow Mo-wan: It looked so elegant. I want to get one for my wife.
Su Li-zhen Chan: Mr. Chow, you're so good to your wife!
Chow Mo-wan: Not really! My wife is so fussy. Her birthday is some days away. I don't know what to get her. Could you buy one for me to give her?
Su Li-zhen Chan: Maybe she wouldn't want one just exactly the same.
Chow Mo-wan: You're right, I didn't think of that.
Su Li-zhen Chan: A woman would mind.
Chow Mo-wan: Yes, especially since we're neighbors. Do they come in other colors?
Su Li-zhen Chan: I'd have to ask my husband.
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Su Li-zhen Chan: Why do you ask?
Chow Mo-wan: It looked so elegant. I want to get one for my wife.
Su Li-zhen Chan: Mr. Chow, you're so good to your wife!
Chow Mo-wan: Not really! My wife is so fussy. Her birthday is some days away. I don't know what to get her. Could you buy one for me to give her?
Su Li-zhen Chan: Maybe she wouldn't want one just exactly the same.
Chow Mo-wan: You're right, I didn't think of that.
Su Li-zhen Chan: A woman would mind.
Chow Mo-wan: Yes, especially since we're neighbors. Do they come in other colors?
Su Li-zhen Chan: I'd have to ask my husband.
[...]
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Soundtrack:
Yumeji's Theme
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In 60s Hong Kong, a man and woman move in the same day into adjacent apartments with their respective spouses. Soon they suspect their ever absent spouses of having an affair with one-another. A strange bond emerges between the man and woman as they cope with their sadness by taking turns playing each other's spouse, before a more complex bond emerges...
No summary can do it justice, for Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai's "In the Mood for Love" is nothing short of a miracle. A story about sadness that manages to be touching and at times funny. A romance that never feels forced or fake. No doubt the director's method has a lot to do with that.
Directed from an inexistent screenplay (though the concept largely flows from a Japanese short story) to favor improvisation, the film is immediately set apart by the freshness of it's performances. All the film revolves around that and the rest is pure enhancement. At the core of the film are two characters that will ease into your heart and stay there long after the end credits roll: Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung are simply amazing and no language barrier undermines a single fragment of immediacy and truth they display. The additional material is also top-notch: the films is magnificent to behold (in part lensed by "Hero"'s Christopher Doyle) and the music is heartbreaking.
This is something everybody must see, if only because it is by far the most heartfelt, mature and authentic "love story" out there. Unmissable.