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by Solipsism , Feb 06 '01
Pros: Beautiful art direction, costumes, and cinematography
Cons: None.
Wong Kar-Wei, the Hong Kong director renown for his visually sumptuous, unscripted films (Chungking Express, Happy Together), delivers another story about detached human relationships.
This time it revolves around two individuals, veterans...
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by thevoid99  - Top 100, Oct 04 '05
Pros: Kar-Wai's Story/Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Costumes, Music, & Cast including Chui-Wai & Cheung.
Cons: None.
When Sofia Coppola won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for her 2003 masterpiece Lost in Translation, one of the people she thanked was a Hong Kong-born director named Wong Kar-Wai. Admitting to borrowing elements of his work into her own ...
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by wilda , Apr 26 '01
Pros: Intellectual, visually beautiful, great acting, great cinematography.
Cons: A bit slow, not a whole lot of plot.
My previous exposure to Wong Kar-Wai's movies consist solely of "Chungking Express" and "Fallen Angels." What few movies I've seen have made me a huge fan of his work. He and Christopher Doyle shoot scenes and tell a story like no one else can. ...
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by shaolinxq , Sep 24 '01
Pros: Acting, directing, cinematography,etc. A near perfect movie.
Cons: Some of the songs on the soundtrack are noticeably absent.
Wong Kar Wai has done it again. This may be one if, if not the, best films of his career.
Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung play neighbor's who beleive thier spouses are having an affair with eachother. The two get together and start...
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by cousinavi , Oct 02 '01
Pros: Musical score is an utter delight; camerawork is gorgeous; acting is phenomenal
Cons: Misleading advertising campaign; structure and pacing are surely not for all tastes.
An intoxicating two-hour slowdance of a film, and a beautifully stylized, riveting tour de force, "In the Mood For Love", from director Wong Kar-wai ("Happy Together"), is a tale of supressed passion, played out in urban 1960s Shanghai. Mr. Chow (Tony...
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by j-mak , Feb 26 '01
Pros: A breathtaking ephemeral slice of the 1960's in Hong Kong.
Cons: Those expecting the style seen in Chungking Express will probably be disappointed.
I was fortunate enough to have gotten on the list for Visual Communication’s advanced presentation of Wong Kar Wai’s long awaited, In The Mood For Love. I missed the premier of the film in it’s native Hong Kong by days and have been anxiously waiting...
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by Nagase , Nov 15 '01
Pros: beautiful cinematography, good acting, novel plot
Cons: timing may be a bit tricky
A film set in Hong Kong during the 1960s, two couples move into empty rooms in apartments adjacent to each other. Through careful observation and suspicion, Mr. Chow realizes that his wife is cheating on him with Mrs. Chen's husband. Chow and Chen...
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by metalluk - Top 100, Aug 16 '04
Pros: Beautiful artsy cinematography, superb performances, moody soundtrack, challenging and original theme
Cons: Too slow for some; too frustrating for some (sexual tease without culmination)
In the Mood for Love is about romantic love and intense longing without sexual culmination. It is about the sacrifice of passion at the altar of fidelity. Some viewers will find the film overly frustrating, like an extended bout of foreplay ...
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by urinoman , Feb 18 '01
Pros: Emotionally deep. Glorious look, music, acting.
Cons: Not for the Adam Sandler set.
I watched this movie 6 months ago, and my mind is still reeling. In The Mood For Love is a story about two lonely people who found each other, became friends... and fell in love.
After discovering that their spouses were having an affair, Chow...
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by M.S. , Mar 31 '01
Pros: "In the Mood" is a dazzlingly beautiful film made with virtuosic technique...
Cons: But it never gives us a chance to get inside its characters' heads
Note: The following review was written to appear in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. However the papers' evil big-shot publishers (actually my extremely amiable editor Bob) rejected it, since the two primary films reviewed have already closed here in SC. And...
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by kknox0616 , Mar 05 '01
Pros: Beautiful imagery, powerfully restrained acting, disjarring passion
Cons: Some may find its disjointed narrative a bit offputting
In director Wong Kar-Wai's emotionally devastating IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, the audience is taken to early 1960's Hong Kong, where two neighbors unwittingly become more than that when they discover that their spouses have been having an affair.
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by mrbrown , Feb 07 '01
Pros: Terrific performances by Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung; great atmosphere.
Cons: Won't satisfy anyone's need for a story.
Longing has always been a recurring theme in Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai's body of work that it was only a matter of time before he made a feature that centered on the feeling. And that's exactly what In the Mood for Love is about, plain and...
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by jonesmon , Mar 22 '01
Pros: A masterpiece by director Wong Karwai
Cons: None I can think of.
Well, now I can really put my thoughts into this film and say this is a good masterpiece about love. It starts with Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) bumping into each other while moving into the same apartment....
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by xiibaro , May 31 '01
Pros: Wong Kar-Wai creates one visually stunning movie.
Cons: Xenophobe alert: the film is subtitled.
(Dir: Wong Kar-Wai, Starring Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Lai Chen, Ping Lam Siu, Chi-ang Chi, Man-Lei Chan, Kam-wah Koo, Hsien Yu, and Po-chun Chow)
When Wong Kar-Wai makes a movie, he makes poetry in motion. Every movement is so...
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by OM-4 , Feb 13 '01
Pros: Very strong visuals, superb artdirection, great acting, smooth soundtrack
Cons: Little story, much left in the open
Anyone who has seen earlier work from writer/director Wong Kar-Wai will be amazed by the grace and pace of In the Mood for Love. Clearly Wong is moving from a multi story film like Chunking Express and Fallen Angels towards concentrating more on the...
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