Review for 'In the Mood for Love' ft. French Impressionism

        Chosen film for the day (21 February 2019) is a 2000 Hong Kong romantic, drama film, ‘In the Mood for Love’ directed by Wong Kar Wai and was written and produced by this same person at the same time.

In the Mood for Love (2000)


French Impressionism, a film movement that

The film ‘In the Mood for Love’ set place in Hong Kong in the 1960s. It revolves around two persons of two couples, both Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan who moved into the same building becoming neighbours on the same day. As their respective spouses always told them they had to work late, both Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan spent their time in their house filling with loneliness. After discovering their spouses having an affair, they tested each other only to find out the other had known what was happening. Feeling extremely lonely and hurt after the truth was being confirmed, the two came together analysing the way how their spouses got together, reproducing the scenes they imagined in their minds of both their husband and wife. Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan were curious to find out the ways possible making their spouses falling for each other, saying they would stayed as friends not being like ‘them’. Eventually, they fell in love with each other in the process, which lead them to part ways leaving for different lives afterwards. Both of them ended up being alone, while surprisingly Mrs. Chan later having a son.

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