In the Mood for Love 2000 123movies

Watch: 花樣年華 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together as friends. They have everything in common from noodle shops to martial arts. Soon, they are shocked to discover that their spouses are having an affair. Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates..
Plot: Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan and Su Li-Zhen 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.
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Ratings:

	8.1/10 Votes: 149,883
	91% | RottenTomatoes
	85/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2037 Popularity: 23.242 | TMDB

Reviews:

Wonderful Hong Kong Art-house.
Two people living in the same flat complex find their partners are having an affair with each other. As they try and piece together how it happened, they also embark on an emotional journey that aches for a resolution…

Building on his previous success with Happy Together and Chungking Express, Wong Kar Wai gives us this rather old fashioned and marvellous story of reawakened passions, yearning and unrequited love.

Possibly, In the Mood for Love is not to everyone’s taste. It wanders in rather lazily at 98mins: not particularly long for a film, but it appears longer because not a lot really happens. But this lazy feel conceals a quite tightly constructed film. Most of the story is cunningly woven around a series of set piece role plays, where the characters act out presumed scenarios between their respective spouses, trying to work out how the affair started. I say cunning because, of course, this makes it difficult for the audience (and the characters) to tell what is “in-role” and what is genuine.

If all this sounds rather arty and self-conscience, that’s because it is. Unashamedly so. And it is played to perfection by two of Hong Kong’s finest, Maggie Cheung and Leung Chui Wai, with some excellent support from Ping Lam Siu and Rebecca Pan.

It is also a virtuoso performance by Wong Kar Wai, who treats the audience to a sensory, and sensual, overload. Bringing together Christopher Doyle (who later deployed his lush, over-ripe style on Hero) and Pin Bing Lee (whose beautifully understated style can be seen on Springtime in a Small Town) was cinematographic genius. It has all the bold beauty of Doyle, without, frankly, the Athena-poster cheesiness of his work on Hero. The music, as always with Wong, is prominent. From Nat King Cole singing in Spanish, to the haunting strings of the main theme, it perfectly matches the eclectic beauty of the images.

All in all a top film, whether judged on plot, acting, cinematography or soundtrack. Similar to, but more accessible than, Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, this is a beautiful, old fashioned story about love lost and regained.

And watch out for Tony Leung’s hotel room 2046, which presaged Wong’s recent film of the same name.

Getting knocked up the old fashioned way (circa Hollywood 1940)
WARNING: SPOILER,SPOILER,SPOILER!!!!

This is written for filmgoers who may have walked away from “Mood for Love” perplexed and confused about paths the main characters choose in life. From reading other comments and reviews it seems that many viewers and critics missed some very important details which may have prevented them from enjoying this delightful tease of a movie.

We are so use to seeing blatant SEX in narrations that we forget that there was a time when filmakers would suggest the “dirty deed” by simply showing the slack-mouthed couples ride off in a sleigh or haywagon only to return into the next scene with a bulging gut or a fat toddler stuck to the hip…”Meet your child”.

The director chose the same nostalgic approach in telling the story of Mr Chow and Mrs Chan. Last warning…SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

Mr Chow fools Mrs Chan into showing her real emotions when they rehearse his departure forever. Next scene: Mrs Chan leans her head on Mr Chow in the taxi and says “I do not want to go home tonight”. Translation: “Let’s Do It”

Why then did the couple just not do the modern thing of dumping their cheating spouses,get a divorce,raise their love child and live happily ever after? The answer is that this whole story takes place in Hong Kong during the Sixties. A bastard would live in a bleak life of shame if he were the child of an adulteress;whereas,a “legitimate” child could live a tragic but noble/honest life if his mother chose to raise him away from his cheating “father”-the invisible Mr Chan. In short,Mr Chow and Mrs Chan sacrifices their relationship for the future of their child.

That is why Mr Chow,upon learning that Mrs Chan lives alone with a little boy gives a knowing smile and ends his dreams of making Mrs Chan his Mrs Chow. He then,also realizes why Mrs Chan went to all the way to Singapore to be with him,only to reconsiders at the last momment and leave..,choosing to never see him again.(But not before taking some unnamed keepsake) Mr Chow lives with this wonderful secret with no one to tell. No one,except for a crumbling temple wall and of course we the viewer,…but only if we listen carefuly.

Other Information:

Original Language cn
Runtime 1 hr 38 min (98 min), 1 hr 34 min (94 min) (Poland)
Budget 150000
Revenue 12854953
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Kar-Wai Wong
Writer Kar-Wai Wong
Actors Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping-Lam
Country Hong Kong, France
Awards Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award46 wins & 51 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 BL4, Zeiss Lenses, Arriflex 535, Zeiss Lenses
Laboratory Kantana, Bangkok, Thailand
Film Length 2,801 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 500T 5279, Vision 800T 5289)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2022 remaster), Spherical
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP 4 k), 35 mm