In The Mood For Love Criterion Collection 2-disc

Aito ja alkuperäinen CRITERION COLLECTION 2-Disc DVD julkaisu.  R1, ei suomitekstejä, tekstit englanniksi.

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 secured a place in the cinematic canon, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.

TWO-DVD special Edition Features

• Digital transfer; restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Mark Lee Ping-bin
• @ “In the Mood for Love,”director Wong Kar?wai’s documentary on the making of the film
• Deleted scenes, with commentary by Wong
• Hua yang de nian hua(2000), a short film by Wong
• Archival interview with Wong 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
• Trailers and TV spots
• The music of In the Mood for Love,presented in an interactive essay
• Essay by film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the film’s unique setting
• Photo gallery
• Biographies of key cast and crew
• Plus: An essay by film critic Steve Erickson

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 secured a place in the cinematic canon, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.

TWO-DVD special Edition Features

• Digital transfer; restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Mark Lee Ping-bin
• @ “In the Mood for Love,”director Wong Kar?wai’s documentary on the making of the film
• Deleted scenes, with commentary by Wong
• Hua yang de nian hua(2000), a short film by Wong
• Archival interview with Wong 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
• Trailers and TV spots
• The music of In the Mood for Love,presented in an interactive essay
• Essay by film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the film’s unique setting
• Photo gallery
• Biographies of key cast and crew
• Plus: An essay by film critic Steve Erickson

Wong Kar-Wai's "in the mood for love" is, as its title suggests, a study of this human experience we call love. But is not, unlike the title (which alludes to a famous western love song and western loves songs are elemental to the plot) and its surface plot line suggests, limited to romantic love. It does, in fact, depict the lifeline of a seemingly tragic unconsummated love affair but in the process of this exploration meditates on a range of human emotions and feelings and ways of being. I say seemingly tragic because although the lovers do not live "happily ever after" and the hero rides off into the sunset alone they are both, in fact, liberated from illusory existence in the process. Furthermore, the film considers what it is that constitutes love be it romantic or altruistic; examining such aspects as sincerity, truth, concern, loyalty, trust, honesty, and, of course passion. It is a study of the roles that we mortals and fortune play in our different relationships both as individuals and members of society. And, echoing "Casa Blanca" it is a buddy flick to boot; staged during the turbulent East of the sixties. His friend, although a comedic sidekick, is also a somewhat pragmatic earthy confidante who serves a drunken master/monk's role. This symbolic image is repeated towards the end when a Buddhist monk is the sole witness to our hero whispering his secret to the mountain. The extended ensemble of neighbors and workmates that serve as boundary lines, backdrop and compass points are also major cast components. Even French President, Charles De Gaulle and Nat King Cole make significant appearances via documentary footage and soundtrack. The film is informed by both Zen Buddhism and post post modern physics both in regards to the space/time continuum it explores as well as the cinematic techniques employed to do so. The freeze frames and blurs employed to punctuate and slow "reality" were especially effective as were the chapter titles and soundtrack. But more importantly the plot and dialogue themselves serve to simultaneously focus and distort to more accurately depict reality as evidenced by the role playing that isn't role playing as well as the mirrored images. "in the mood for love" is a meditation on how to be both in love and in life and it makes the point that we are by what we do and in the process, if lucky, we be.

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