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Overview

User Rating:
8.1/10   22,670 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Kar Wai Wong (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
26 February 2001 (USA) more
Genre:
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 & 23 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(31 articles)
Thai Film Voted Best Of Decade
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 24 November 2009, 2:46 PM, PST)

Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten
 (From FilmExperience. 17 November 2009, 8:41 PM, PST)

User Comments:
Moody Mis-en-scene more (250 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)

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
Julien Carbon ... French tourist (uncredited)
Laurent Courtiaud ... French reporter (uncredited)
Charles de Gaulle ... Himself (1966 visit to Cambodia) (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Directed by
Kar Wai Wong 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Kar Wai Wong  written by

Produced by
William Chang .... associate producer
Ye-cheng Chan .... executive producer
Gilles Ciment .... co-executive producer
Jacky Pang Yee Wah .... associate producer (as Jacky Pang Yee-Wah)
Kar Wai Wong .... producer
 
Original Music by
Michael Galasso  (as Mike Galasso)
Shigeru Umebayashi 
 
Cinematography by
Christopher Doyle 
Pin Bing Lee  (as Mark Lee Ping-bin)
 
Film Editing by
William Chang 
 
Production Design by
William Chang 
 
Costume Design by
William Chang 
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Johnnie Kong .... first assistant director
 
Art Department
Ping Lam Siu .... property master
 
Other crew
Tony Rayns .... subtitler: english
 

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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)
Любовное настроение (Russia) [ru]
Amor à Flor da Pele (Brazil) [pt]
Ask zamani (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Con ánimo de amar (Argentina) [es]
Deseando amar (Spain) [es]
Disponível Para Amar (Portugal) [pt]
Erotiki epithymia (Greece) [el]
In the Mood for Love (Finland) [fi]
In the Mood for Love (Spain) [es]
In the Mood for Love (Italy) (video title) [it]
In the Mood for Love - Der Klang der Liebe (Germany) [de]
Les silences du désir (Canada: French title) [fr]
Rakkaus käy taloksi (Finland) (TV title) [fi]
Spragnieni milosci (Poland) [pl]
Szerelemre hangolva (Hungary) [hu]
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MPAA:
Rated PG for thematic elements and brief language.
Runtime:
98 min | Poland:94 min
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Color:
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1.66 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Filming took 15 months. more
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. more
Quotes:
Caption: He remembers those vanished years. As though looking throusth a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Le cinéma passe à table (2005) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Quizás, Quizás, Quizás more

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30 out of 35 people found the following comment useful.
Moody Mis-en-scene, 24 February 2003
10/10
Author: Fong_Chun_Kin from Singapore

The most attractive factor that lies in this masterpiece of a film is not the beautiful lead actors. It isn't their outstanding acting and sizzling chemistry either.

To me, it is the mis-en-scene of the entire movie. The settings, the lighting, the props... all add to the mood for love between the main characters. A whiff of smoke from Chow's cigarette tells us his state of mind, the ever-changing tight-fitting cheongsams of Lizhen reflects the constraints of decision-making, the ruins of Angkor Wat ties in with the deteriorating relationship of the two leads.

The excellent use of mis-en-scene gives the film just the right amount of feel needed to flesh out the complicated nature of the characters' relationship. The film leaves the audience fruitlessly yearning for more.

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