In the Mood for Love

Wong Kar-wai · 2000 CE · Film · Chinese · Contemporary

Two neighbors in 1962 Hong Kong work out that their spouses are having an affair with each other. They begin meeting to reconstruct how it must have started, then to write a serial novel together, then simply to meet. Restraint filmed as longing.

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