In The Mood - For Love Wong Kar-wai __exclusive__

There is a film that lives in the space between a button being undone and a confession being swallowed. That film is Wong Kar-wai’s 2000 masterpiece, In the Mood for Love .

So pour a glass of something amber. Turn off the lights. Watch two of the greatest actors who have ever lived do absolutely nothing except exist near each other. You will feel your own ribs tighten. in the mood for love wong kar-wai

But Wong Kar-wai is making a film about decency as tragedy. Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan cannot commit adultery because that would make them equal to the people who betrayed them. They hold onto their pain like a moral shield. They would rather be lonely than be wrong. There is a film that lives in the

Then there is the music. Nat King Cole’s "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps). A waltz by Shigeru Umebayashi. Every time the melody swells, you know something will not happen. The music is the sound of longing converted to regret. Why don’t they just be together? Turn off the lights

Wong Kar-wai cuts to the jungle. To the trees growing over the stones. The implication is devastating: some loves do not die. They are just buried alive. In the Mood for Love is not a date movie. It is a rainy-Sunday-alone movie. It is a text-your-ex-and-then-delete-it movie. It is a film for anyone who has ever felt a feeling they were not allowed to name.