The Criterion Collection

In the Mood for Love

Edition no. 147

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  • Release Date: October 02 2012
  • Country of Release: USA
  • MSRP: $39.95
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Licensor
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Directed by: Wong Kar-wai
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) 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, Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past decade of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.
  • Year: 2000
  • Time: 98 min.

Technical Specifications

Format: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audio: Cantonese 5.1 DTS-HD MA Surround
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Subtitles: English
Region: A
Discs: 1 Disc |  BD-50

Supplements

  • @ "In the Mood for Love," director Wong Kar-wai's documentary on the making of the film
  • Deleted scenes, with commentary by Wong Kar-wai
  • Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong
  • Archival interview with Wong Kar-wai and a “cinema lesson” given by the director at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
  • Toronto International Film Festival press conference from 2000, with stars Maggie Cheung Man-yuk and Tony Leung Chiu-wai
  • On In the Mood for Love: 2012 interview featuring critic Tony Rayns offering his perspective on the style and content of In the Mood for Love and his evaluation of the film's place in Wong Kar-wai's career
  • The Soundtrack: Tony Rayns looks at the unique musical collage of the film's soundtrack
  • Music cues from the film
  • Trailers
  • TV Spots
  • A booklet featuring the Liu Yi-chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film, and a new essay by novelist and film critic Steve Erickson

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Release Credits

Producer: Curtis Tsui

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