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credit: © 2000 USA Films
AC
Team's Wendy Chan interviews the stars and director:
Tony
Leung Chiu-wai,
Maggie
Cheung Man-yuk, Wong
Kar-wai
Official
Site: http://www.wkw-inthemoodforlove.com
The
Story Line:
Hong Kong, 1962. The city is tranquil and courteous.
The population is divided between indigenous Cantonese Chinese and
immigrants from mainland China. The mood is cautiously optimistic
as the economy (following the example set by nearby Japan) is beginning
to take off. Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a journalist, rents
a room in an apartment in a building mainly inhabited by the Shanghainese
community. It's sheer coincidence that he moves in the same day
that Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) moves in next door, to a
room in Mrs. Suen's (Rebecca Pan) place. Li-zhen works as a secretary
to Mr. Ho (Lai Chin), the boss of a shipping company. It's also
a coincidence that both of them are moving in without help from
their spouses. Chow's wife, a hotel receptionist, is working her
shift at the hotel at the time of the move. Li-zhen's husband, Mr.
Chan, is away on a business trip: he works for a Japanese company,
and is often abroad. Despite having convivial and neighborly landlords,
Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan often find themselves alone and lonely in
their respective rooms.
They never have a real conversation until Mr. Chow realizes
that their respective spouses are having an affair. This discovery
shocks both of them. Mr. Chow, feeling hurt and wishing to understand
how the affair happened, begins finding excuses to spend time with
Mrs. Chan. First, they rehearse what they will say to their spouses
when they confront them with what they know; then, Mr. Chow invites
Mrs. Chan to collaborate with him on a martial-arts story that he
is writing for his newspaper. Their meetings are discreet, but people
begin to notice. There seems no possibility that they, too, will
have an affair. But Mrs. Chan's emotional reticence begins to haunt
Mr. Chow, and he finds his feelings changing. It's almost like being
in love...
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Related:
AC
Interviews Actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai
AC Interviews
Actress Maggie Cheung Man-yuk
AC Interviews Director
Wong Kar-wai
In the Mood for Love (Movie Review by AC Team's
Solange Castro Belcher)
About In the Mood for Love
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