In the Mood for Love

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Trailer "In the Mood for Love"

Hong Kong 1962: Ambitious newspaper editor Chow (Tony Leung Ka Fai) and shy secretary Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) are among the many immigrants who have fled to the British crown colony following the conquest of Shanghai by the Chinese Communists. Although both are married and earn a regular salary, they can only afford a sublet room with a strange family because of the housing shortage in Hong Kong. Coincidentally, they move into the same apartment building on the same day and live next door to each other. Every day, Chow and Li-zhen bump into each other in the hallway. As their spouses are hardly ever at home, a friendship characterized by an underlying longing gradually develops between the two lonely people. Eventually they find out that Chow's wife and Li-zhen's husband are having a secret affair. Although Chow is also passionately in love with his beautiful neighbor, there is no question of swapping partners. They only involuntarily spend a single night together in a hotel room. Shy and guilty, the two lovers keep their distance. To escape the sad situation, Chow finally has no choice but to move to another city.

In contrast to his previous films Chungking Express, Days of being wild or Fallen Angels , in In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-Wai tells an almost classic love story with a sad ending, not a wild experiment in form with a hectic camera, but a nostalgic dream that envelops the viewer, flows around them and takes them on a journey into aesthetic worlds and great emotions. At the same time, Wong Kar-Wai proves himself to be a master of small gestures that prevent the film from slipping too far into the emotional or kitschy. A hypnotic film experience and, for me, one of the most perfect love films of all time

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7,50 € - Reduced price for U21 9,50 € - Tuesday is movie day 11,50 € - Regular