In the Mood for Love (2001)

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Rating: PG

Release Date: Feb 2, 2001

Running Time: 97 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue Cantonese and Shanghaiese

Country Of Origin: China

Country Of Origin: France

starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Rebecca Pan, Lai Chin, Siu Ping-lam, Chin Tsi-ang, Chan Man-Lui, Koo Kam-Wah, Yu Hsien, Chow Po-Chun

director: Wong Kar Wai

In the Mood for Love

Set in the 1960s, Chow is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At approximately the same time, Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in. With their spouses away often, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together as friends -- until they realize that their spouses are having an affair and slowly decide to do the same.

January 18, 2001

Has a movie ever smoldered more ravishingly with the promise of sex than "In the Mood for Love?" Not in recent memory. And the fact that Wong Kar-wai, the film's spectacularly gifted writer and director, doesn't deliver any hard-core action only heightens the steamy atmosphere. Nothing's hotter than repression - especially in this movie, which makes foreplay look like a lost art.

The place is Hong Kong, the time is 1962, and Chow (Tony Leung) and Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) are drop-dead gorgeous. He…