In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love Chinese is a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Karwai, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung. It premiered onMay 2000, at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme dOr.

The story takes place in Hong Kong in 1962. Chow Mowan Tony Leung, a journalist, rents a room in an apartment of a building on the same day as Su Lizhen Maggie Cheung, a secretary from a shipping company. They become nextdoor neighbours. Each has a spouse who works and often leaves them alone on overtime shifts. Despite the presence of a friendly Shanghainese landlady, Mrs. Suen, and bustling, mahjongplaying neighbours, Chow and Su often find themselves alone in their rooms. Their lives continue to intersect in everyday situations a recurring motif is the loneliness of eating alone, The film documents the leads chance encounters, each making their individual trek to the street noodle stall.Chow and Su each nurse suspicions about their own spouses fidelity each comes to the conclusion that their spouses have been seeing each other. Su wonders aloud how their spouses affair might have begun. Su and Chow reenact what they imagine might have happened. ........

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