Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 86 | Rotten: 12
This understated romance, featuring good performances by its leads, is both visually beautiful and emotionally moving.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 4
This understated romance, featuring good performances by its leads, is both visually beautiful and emotionally moving.
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Average Rating: 4.4/5
User Ratings: 48,353
For his first film since the 1997 Hong Kong handover, auteur filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directs this moody period drama about unrequited love that, like his earlier work, swoons with romantic melancholy. Set in a Shanghaiese enclave in Hong Kong in 1962, the film centers on two young couples who rent adjacent rooms in a cramped and crowded tenement. Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) works as a secretary in an export company while her husband's job at a Japanese multinational keeps him away on extended
Feb 2, 2001 Wide
Mar 5, 2002
USA Films
All Critics (113) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (90) | Rotten (12) | DVD (28)
Wong Kar-wai tricks up the schmaltz with a lot of avant-garde filigree. He's that most suspect of hybrids: a pop-schlock aesthete.
Stylized, set-designed to the last hair wisp, the film is a mixture of bold devices with delicate understatement that leave a remarkable aftereffect.
I didn't much care for this very strange movie.
A feast for the eyes and succor for the soul.
Top CriticRecommended to anyone who's ever felt the fear and lure of falling in love.
The sexiest movie of the year.
The emotional richness of the piece undeniably pierces the heart.
Agençant parfaitement la simplicité de son récit à la complexité de sa mise en scène, Wong Kar Wai nous livre au final un chef-d'%u0153uvre incontestable en son genre.
When you're in the mood for subtitles and more art than action or plot, check out Wong Kar-wai's highly regarded In the Mood for Love
As this lovely film moves from allegro to adagio, it never loses its pervasive sense of loneliness.
It rivals the impact...Lost Highway [had for me], and is easily one of the best films I have ever seen.
Quizás, baby.
Violins tactilely pull at your heartstrings and induce memories of all the unrequited love affairs or unhappy memories you ever had.
In The Mood For Love is a Kar-Wai Wong delicate masterpiece of shared sorrow inflicted by distant and adulterous spouses. Elegance despite treachery. Stylized and sophisticated cinema artistry. Sultry soundtrack. Exquisite.
September 10, 2011Super Reviewer
A man and a woman, each with distant spouses, form a friendship, burning with subtle romance, after they move in next to each other.In My Blueberry Nights, the only other Kar Wai Wong film that I have seen, there were so many ridiculously placed montages and shots in which the camera drifts from the banal to the
April 6, 2011
Super Reviewer
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