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In the Mood for Love
(Hua yang nian hua)

Screening on Film
Directed by Wong Kar-wai.
With Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung.
France/Hong Kong, 2000, 35mm, color, 98 min.
Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles.

A swooningly cinematic unfolding of romantic desire, Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood For Love paints the industrious world of 1960s Hong Kong in luxuriant color, texture, and sound. This paean to love follows two lonely professionals from the same apartment building who circle each other romantically after they begin to suspect their spouses are having an affair. At once restrained and sensual, the film layers detail upon detail to create a ravishing, hypnotic portrait of urban desire.

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