In the Mood for Love
In the Mood for Love is a 2000 Hong Kong movie written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai.
Plot outline
Hong Kong 1962: Chau, chief editor of a local newspaper, and his wife move into a new apartment of Shanghainese building. He meets Li-chun who not only moves in the same day, but without help from their spouses. As both of their couples are always out for work, they spend more and more time together. Soon, they discover that their spouses are having an affair shocking both of them...
Unique artistic expressions
There were two unique artistic expressions in this movie. One is the use of seemingly repetitive scenes and the other is that certain sequences that look like one scene but they were actually a collage of numerous encounters of the two main characters in the movie. The techniques gave the audience the impression that these two characters were doing the same thing over and over again everyday over a very long period of time. However, if you pay attention to the dress that Maggie Cheung was wearing, you would notice that she wore a different dress in every single shot in those sequences. Obviously they are not editing the same shot over and over again but artistic shots with different costume and make up for each shot.
Awards
- Best Actor, 2000 Cannes Film Festival
- Best Foreign Film, 2001 Cesar Award
- Screen International Award, 2000 European Film Awards