In the Mood for Love (2000) directed by Wong Kar-Wai @ Naro Expanded Cinema

Right when I was thinking, "Our schedule needs some Wong Kar-Wai," the Naro up and scoops me by putting a 4k remaster of In the Mood for Love (2000) on the schedule!

Make sure to purchase tickets in advance from the Naro website. (Is Wong Kar-Wai a big draw in Norfolk? ¯*(ツ)*/¯ You got me.)

RUNTIME: 98 minutes

SYNOPSIS (via Janus Films/Naro website): Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past 25 years of cinema.

BLURBS:

"In the Mood for Love excites us with words not spoken, passions not played out. A mood story more than a love story, it's all about sustaining a state of exquisite melancholy in the face of desire." - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

"It is undeniable in its poignancy, an ecstatic vision of what might have been, though as much for its story as for the fact that the whole thing dissolves like a paper fan in rain, an evanescent masterwork." - Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly

"Shot through with spirals of cigarette smoke and blazing with the colors and geometry of '60s textile design, In the Mood for Love is a feast for the eyes and succor for the soul, examining the secrets that join men and women, and that keep them apart." - Steven Rhea, Philadelphia Enquirer