Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Downtown, Los Angeles
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai, INFERNAL AFFAIRS) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, IRMA VEP) 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.