In the mood for spring with Wong Kar-Wai

Our film series about Wong Kar-Wai invites you on a sensual journey through time, memory and unfulfilled longing. Hardly any other director has left such a mark on cinema with his unmistakable visual language, his poetic narrative style and the intense combination of music, space and emotion.

Wong Kar-Wai's films are not classic stories - they are moods. Fragile encounters and missed opportunities unfold in shimmering neon lights, rainy street canyons and cramped apartments. Figures drift through the big city, seeking closeness and yet losing themselves again and again in loneliness and nostalgia.

This series brings together his most important works - from the pulsating snapshots in Chungking Express to the melancholy elegance of In the Mood for Love and the hypnotic journey through time in 2046, revealing how Wong Kar-Wai has created his very own cinematic language with recurring motifs, iconic images and a unique rhythm.

Our series ends with: 2046

Hong Kong 1966: Writer Chow is writing a science fiction novel in his hotel room. The further he progresses with his fictional love story set in the future, the deeper he plunges into a whirlpool of memories of his own love affairs.

For example, in room 2046, which is next to his current room 2047, an old girlfriend whom he had only just met again was killed. The loss leads to the destruction of Chow's emotional sensitivity. Love is now just a field of experimentation that functions as an expression of his desires, but not of his emotional feelings.

The women with whom Chow becomes involved after the death of his old girlfriend feel this. They are part of his tragic attempt to reconnect with past emotions.