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In the Mood for Love

The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films (BBC)

Fa yeung nin wa (In the Mood for Love)

2000

Wong Kar-Wai

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Siu Ping-Lam ...

7.8

40,934

Romance. Drama Two couples meet and live in a building mainly inhabited by the Shanghai community. The husband of one couple, Chau, meets the beautiful wife of the second couple, Li-chun. As their spouses spend a lot of time away from home at work, Chau and Li-chun become good friends, often meeting with the landlord to play games and discuss the latest gossip. As their respective partners spend more and more time away, Chau and Li-chun begin to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"Dizzy with a romantic spirit that’s been missing from the cinema forever."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is physically lush (...) [It] rewards (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Nothing's hotter than repression — especially in this movie, which makes foreplay look like a lost art (...) It's a beauty."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"'In The Mood For Love' casts a dreamy and melancholic spell that remains unbroken long after the closing credits have rolled."	POS
United States	Vikram Murthi IndieWire	"Sensual and devastating in equal measure (...) Wong gracefully employs certain techniques in the film that somehow produce both overwhelming beauty and unbearable dread"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"The performances are masterly, and the photography beautiful. A genuinely romantic romance (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Wong’s use of the interior space is impeccable (...) 'In the Mood For Love' is ravishing beyond mortal words (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Michael Thomson BBC	"It is uplifting to witness a story which unfolds in peace and quiet (...) A true master of visual storytelling (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Rayns Time Out	"Every charged frame of the film pulses with the central contradiction between repression and emotional abandon; the formalism and sensuality are inextricable."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Walker The Guardian	"Masterpiece (...) 'In the Mood for Love's glory is its universality (...) There are many reasons to adore the film, most obviously its almost unworldly, dream-like beauty."	POS

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