In The Mood For Love

Filmmaker’s Intro — Why Geordie Selected It 

"This is one of the greatest films of the 21st century — and there’s a good chance you may never have seen it. Since its release, In the Mood for Love has influenced an entire generation of filmmakers. Its fingerprints can be seen in films as different as Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, and the work of the Daniels, Its use of colour, music, framing and editing — and its ability to communicate enormous emotion through what its characters don’t say — helped shape the visual language of modern cinema. Janus Films describes it as a major stylistic influence on the past 25 years of filmmaking. For me, this series is about sharing the films that inspire filmmakers, and few films have influenced the look and feeling of modern cinema quite like this one."
 

Hong Kong, 1962. Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. When they discover that their spouses are having an affair, their shared loneliness creates an increasingly intimate bond. Wong Kar Wai transforms that simple premise into an exquisitely photographed meditation on love, memory, missed opportunities and all the things left unsaid.

2000 | Hong Kong | 98 min. | Cantonese, Shanghainese with English subtitles (very little dialogue) 
Written & Directed by: Wong Kar Wai
Featuring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk
Cinematography by: Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin
Distributor: Janus Films 

Content Advisory: Mature themes, infidelity, smoking and mild sexual references

Capacity 408