Staff Picks: In the Mood for Love (2000) at Moxie Cinema

"In the Mood For Love is ravishing beyond mortal words." (Slant)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) screens Wednesday, July 29th @ 7pm - part of the Staff Picks seres. July's pick was made by Saskia Stevens. Tickets on sale now.
Every month a member of the Moxie staff picks a film that impacted their lives and we put it up on the big screen. The Staff Picks series is Free for Moxie Members.
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 soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career. (PG, 98 min.)