Sat November 30, 2013
In the Mood for Love
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at Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
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New 35mm Print!
(Fa yeung nin wa). Thanks to its appearances on countless top-ten and best-of lists (it is supposedly the most universally acclaimed film of the twenty-first century), Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love seems like it has been around for decades; even when it debuted in 2000, however, the film—set in the early 1960s—already seemed timeless. “This film is not verbal,” said Wong about the way it effortlessly captures an essence of romance and melancholy, as showcased in the lives of two neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) who are “in the mood for love,” yet too proper to act on it. “Everything is expressed through the body, through the people, how they walk, how they move.” If the film’s physical grace is supplied by Cheung and Leung, both luminously attired in some of the most fabulous outfits ever assembled, its mood rises from the camerawork of Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bin, which lingers on hands, hips, and silhouettes, and on all of the moments that could have led, but never do, to love.
—Jason Sanders
• Written by Wong. Photographed by Christopher Doyle, Mark Lee Ping Bin. With Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Siu Ping Lam, Rebecca Pan. (98 mins, In Cantonese with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From TIFF Cinematheque, permission Swank)
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(Fa yeung nin wa). Thanks to its appearances on countless top-ten and best-of lists (it is supposedly the most universally acclaimed film of the twenty-first century), Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love seems like it has been around for decades; even when it debuted in 2000, however, the film—set in the early 1960s—already seemed timeless. “This film is not verbal,” said Wong about the way it effortlessly captures an essence of romance and melancholy, as showcased in the lives of two neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) who are “in the mood for love,” yet too proper to act on it. “Everything is expressed through the body, through the people, how they walk, how they move.” If the film’s physical grace is supplied by Cheung and Leung, both luminously attired in some of the most fabulous outfits ever assembled, its mood rises from the camerawork of Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bin, which lingers on hands, hips, and silhouettes, and on all of the moments that could have led, but never do, to love.
—Jason Sanders
• Written by Wong. Photographed by Christopher Doyle, Mark Lee Ping Bin. With Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Siu Ping Lam, Rebecca Pan. (98 mins, In Cantonese with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From TIFF Cinematheque, permission Swank)
New 35mm Print!
(Fa yeung nin wa). Thanks to its appearances on countless top-ten and best-of lists (it is supposedly the most universally acclaimed film of the twenty-first century), Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love seems like it has been around for decades; even when it debuted in 2000, however, the film—set in the early 1960s—already seemed timeless. “This film is not verbal,” said Wong about the way it effortlessly captures an essence of romance and melancholy, as showcased in the lives of two neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) who are “in the mood for love,” yet too proper to act on it. “Everything is expressed through the body, through the people, how they walk, how they move.” If the film’s physical grace is supplied by Cheung and Leung, both luminously attired in some of the most fabulous outfits ever assembled, its mood rises from the camerawork of Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bin, which lingers on hands, hips, and silhouettes, and on all of the moments that could have led, but never do, to love.
—Jason Sanders
• Written by Wong. Photographed by Christopher Doyle, Mark Lee Ping Bin. With Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Siu Ping Lam, Rebecca Pan. (98 mins, In Cantonese with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From TIFF Cinematheque, permission Swank)
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(Fa yeung nin wa). Thanks to its appearances on countless top-ten and best-of lists (it is supposedly the most universally acclaimed film of the twenty-first century), Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love seems like it has been around for decades; even when it debuted in 2000, however, the film—set in the early 1960s—already seemed timeless. “This film is not verbal,” said Wong about the way it effortlessly captures an essence of romance and melancholy, as showcased in the lives of two neighbors (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai) who are “in the mood for love,” yet too proper to act on it. “Everything is expressed through the body, through the people, how they walk, how they move.” If the film’s physical grace is supplied by Cheung and Leung, both luminously attired in some of the most fabulous outfits ever assembled, its mood rises from the camerawork of Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bin, which lingers on hands, hips, and silhouettes, and on all of the moments that could have led, but never do, to love.
—Jason Sanders
• Written by Wong. Photographed by Christopher Doyle, Mark Lee Ping Bin. With Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Siu Ping Lam, Rebecca Pan. (98 mins, In Cantonese with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From TIFF Cinematheque, permission Swank)
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