In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
The movie takes place in Hong Kong in the 1960´s in a tight built apartment building og follows two neighbors who suspect their spouses of extra-marital activities….with each other.They them self meet together and gradually assess the situation. They make excuses to spend time together in solace but finally the see that they are in fact made for each other but can not act on their true feelings.
The film recreates the same 1960´s Hong Kong that earlier made Wong Kar-Wai´s film Days of Being Wild so authentic. He creates credile characters out of almost nothing using the tension bewteen them. What the audience might see as simmering romance, Wong rather sees as sad resignaton. This is not unrequited love but resisted and forced to the background. The emotional power ot their nonrelationship proves remarkably effective. This is the best representation of unrewarded love of two people in the history of film.
Wong Kar-Wai is today said by many to be one of the best working director and his movies get widely praised, though in Hong Kong Jackie Chan is much more popular. After the expensive Days of Being Wild made its fiasco he took a break for few years. He returned with a string of films that made him the world known artist he is today. Movies such as Ashes of Time (1994), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997) and later 2046 (2004). In the Mood for Love became so popular around the world that he makes a movie on a yearly basis and keeps his artistic freedom, also attracting every star in Asia wanting to work with him.
The movie takes place in Hong Kong in the 1960´s in a tight built apartment building og follows two neighbors who suspect their spouses of extra-marital activities….with each other.They them self meet together and gradually assess the situation. They make excuses to spend time together in solace but finally the see that they are in fact made for each other but can not act on their true feelings.
The film recreates the same 1960´s Hong Kong that earlier made Wong Kar-Wai´s film Days of Being Wild so authentic. He creates credile characters out of almost nothing using the tension bewteen them. What the audience might see as simmering romance, Wong rather sees as sad resignaton. This is not unrequited love but resisted and forced to the background. The emotional power ot their nonrelationship proves remarkably effective. This is the best representation of unrewarded love of two people in the history of film.
Wong Kar-Wai is today said by many to be one of the best working director and his movies get widely praised, though in Hong Kong Jackie Chan is much more popular. After the expensive Days of Being Wild made its fiasco he took a break for few years. He returned with a string of films that made him the world known artist he is today. Movies such as Ashes of Time (1994), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997) and later 2046 (2004). In the Mood for Love became so popular around the world that he makes a movie on a yearly basis and keeps his artistic freedom, also attracting every star in Asia wanting to work with him.
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