In the Mood for Love with In the Mood for Love 2001
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The Grandmaster: Tony Leung
April 29 - May 7
In the career-defining performance that earned him Best Actor at Cannes, Tony Leung stars alongside Maggie Cheung in Wong Kar Wai’s masterful evocation of romantic yearning and its fleeting moments. Followed by Wong’s nine-minute coda, In the Mood for Love 2001.
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung, in the career-defining performance that earned him Best Actor at Cannes) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic yearning and its fleeting moments, anchored by Leung’s controlled portrayal of desire held just below the surface. With its aching soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past quarter-century of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong and Leung’s redoubtable artistic partnership. An NYFF38 Main Slate selection and an NYFF58 Revivals selection.
The feature will be followed by In the Mood for Love 2001, a nine-minute coda—the “dessert” after the main course, as Wong put it. It imagines Leung and Cheung, now as different characters, reuniting in a modern-day Hong Kong convenience store. Brisk, comic, and unconstrained, yet no less beguiling.
The greatest film of the 21st century.
—2022 Sight & Sound Poll
An evanescent masterwork.”
—Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly
A lush story of unrequited love.”
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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