In the Mood for Love (Kar-wai, 2000): Prince Charles Cinema, 5.50pm
This is a 35mm presentation with other screenings throughout December and January . Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
A brooding chamber piece (2000) about a love affair that never quite
happens. Director Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong’s most romantic filmmaker, is
known for his excesses, and in that sense the film’s spareness
represents a bold departure. Claustrophobically set in adjacent flats in
1962 Hong Kong, where two young couples find themselves sharing space
with other people, it focuses on a newspaper editor and a secretary at
an export firm (Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, the sexiest duo in Hong
Kong cinema) who discover that their respective spouses are having an
affair on the road. Wong, who improvises his films with the actors,
endlessly repeats his musical motifs and variations on a handful of
images, rituals, and short scenes (rainstorms, cab rides, stairways,
tender and tentative hand gestures), while dressing Cheung in some of
the most confining (though lovely) dresses imaginable, whose mandarin
collars suggest neck braces.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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