In the Mood for Love

KinoCult presents Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love — one of the most beloved films in cinema history. Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move with their spouses into neighboring apartments and gradually realize their partners are having an affair with each other. The shared betrayal draws them together, but the two are determined not to become what hurt them. Wong Kar-wai tells the love story not so much through what the characters say as through what they don't allow themselves to do — through glances, pauses, reflections, narrow corridors and saturated colors. Starring Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung and Rebecca Pan. The film competed in the main competition at Cannes in 2000 and reached No. 5 in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films of all time.