In The Mood For Love (2000)

[baumer]

Discuss

[Jack Nevada]

Gave up after 30 minutes. It's just bunch of people walking up and down the stairs in slow motion while the same piece of orchestral music plays over and over again. 

[Jake Gittes]

I could watch Tony Leung and Maggie Chung walk up and down stairs shot by Christopher Doyle for hours. I was happy, then, when the film was obviously much more than that. I wouldn't have complained if it ended a scene earlier - I thought the only time it dragged was at the end - but it's still a film of amazing beauty and sadness. 

[RobinHood26]

A- (90)

[JohnnyGossamer]

One of my favorite films of the past 25 years. So heartbreaking. And, fantastic scenario from Wong. Right up there with his own 2046 and Chungking Express. Awesome, awesome writer/director. And, yeah, Doyle's a freak talent as director of photography. Any time I come across the word melancholy, I think first of Wong Kar Wai and then of this film. He captures it ease.

 

"He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct."

 

I love that captioned moment in near the end of film. Just perfection.

 

A+

Edited October 15, 2014 by JohnnyGossamer