In the Mood for Love
2000 film by Wong Kar-wai / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In the Mood for Love (Chinese: 花樣年華; pinyin: Huāyàng niánhuá; lit. 'Golden Years') is a 2000 romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Wong Kar-Wai. A co-production between Hong Kong and France, it portrays a man (Tony Leung) and a woman (Maggie Cheung) whose spouses have an affair together and who slowly develop feelings for each other. It forms the second part of an informal trilogy, alongside Days of Being Wild[4] and 2046.
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| Traditional Chinese | 花樣年華 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 花样年华 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Flowery Years | ||||||||||||||
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| Directed by | Wong Kar-wai | ||||||||||||||
| Written by | Wong Kar-wai | ||||||||||||||
| Produced by | Wong Kar-wai | ||||||||||||||
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| Edited by | William Chang | ||||||||||||||
| Music by | Michael Galasso | ||||||||||||||
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Running time | 98 minutes | ||||||||||||||
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| Language | Cantonese[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Box office | $12.9 million[3] | ||||||||||||||
The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2000,[5] to critical acclaim and a nomination for the Palme d'Or; Leung won Best Actor (the first Hong Kong actor to win the award). It is often listed as one of the greatest films of all time and one of the major works of Asian cinema. In a 2016 survey by the BBC, it was voted the second greatest film of the 21st century by 177 film critics from around the world, saying "never before has a film spoken so fluently in the universal language of loss and desire". In 2022, the film placed 5th in Sight & Sound's "Greatest Films of All Time" critics' poll, rising from its previous position of 24th in 2012. It is the highest-ranked film between 1975 and 2022.[6][7]