In the Mood for Love (2000)
Chow Mo-wan rents a room in a Hong Kong apartment building. It's sheer coincidence that he moves in the same day that Su Li-zhen moves in next door. They never have a real conversation until Mr. Chow realizes that their respective spouses are having an affair. This discovery shocks both of them. Mr. Chow, feeling hurt and wishing to understand how the affair happened, begins finding excuses to spend time with Mrs. Chan. (USA Films)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Kar-Wai Wong
Written By: Kar-Wai Wong
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Roy Cheung, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung, Szu-Ying Chien, Paulyn Sun, Kelly Lai Chen, Man-Lei Chan, Rebecca Pan, Kam-wah Koo, Ping Lam Siu
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Magb | 95 94th |
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"Mood" is right. Few directors can evoke a mood so thoroughly yet so gracefully as Wong. I love how he subtly uses visual and musical motifs as a way of establishing his own, private universe. Big-ups also to Christopher Doyle for his breathtaking cinematography; some of the shots here rank among the coolest, most ingenious, most beautiful I've ever seen. Needless to say, Tony Leung and especially Maggie Cheung are perfect as the would-be lovers. This is pretty much flawless.
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Mentaculus | 89 88th |
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Wong Kar Wai's delicately-paced un-romance takes two married neighbors and visually manifests their longing through quiet dinner parties, stealed glances and almost-rendezvous. Where other films fail and this succeeds is in the culmination of desire: there really is none. If longing truly does make the heart grow fonder, then the characters will share their love for an (unhappy?) eternity. Its mystery, and its lush cinematography, keep this film truly beautiful and haunting.
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TonythePony | 93 96th |
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Subtle romance that is elegant and efficient in both story and direction. Wonderfully restrained performances, beautiful music and rich use of colours. A finely crafted gem.
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Eric WK | 100 99th |
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Beautiful. Every scene and every shot is crafted with delicacy and precision. After my second viewing, I'm convinced that this is one of the few perfect films ever made.
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QVT | 100 99th |
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A perfect movie. But more than that, too. I believe that this film is so good, it is not only the finest film ever made, but that it is the finest film that could ever possibly be made. It sits on top of the pile of cinema the way Lolita would on a book shelf. I am not given to hyperbole in this direction (I tend to hate things with great passion) but you cannot consider your favorite film justified until you have compared it with this one. Beautiful, divine, perfect.
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CCLZA | 90 95th |
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The most beautiful love story ever shot. Every frame of this masterpiece will make you realize: this is real cinema.
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TheDenizen | 50 26th |
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Yes, it's all very beautiful, the sets and costumes are gorgeous, the performances from Leung and Cheung are fantastic. That still doesn't save this movie from being hopelessly boring.
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| 5 | theficionado | 100 97th |
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Wong evokes the feeling of doomed love with mannered (some might say claustrophobic) compositions that could probably best be described in terms of their similarities to a straitjacket, with the repetition of score and scene suggesting no end to the cycle of submerged longing, the inescapability of the would-be lovers' situation.
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KMcNeil | 9 94th |
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The look of (doomed) love. Compositions to die for, colouring worth killing for. Never has the sight of two hearts breaking been prettier.
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lisa- | 1 1st |
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oh god, end it now. what an insufferable bourgeois wankfest. where did you get that purse? where did *you* get that tie? we both made sticky syrup the same night! let us cut a perfectly rendered slice of red meat at the same time, and cue contemplative music! honestly, it's as if WKW took some trashy pulp romance and filtered it through a high-class ultra-modern european-made kieslowski-approved 7000 megapixel camera. drama! romance! contemplation! a total fucking bore!
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DBibby | 100 99th |
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A gorgeous film in every way. Sensual, intimate, and yet devoid of sex, it's an absolute masterpiece and quite possibly the best film of the new millenium. Christopher Doyle's cinematography is so exquisit an exhibition could be held made just of stills from the film. The music, the performances- it's a beautiful film like no other.
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Moribunny | 30 15th |
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I hate to have to call the emperor out on his new clothes, but this is sort of like a crappy version of Brief Encounter and it bored the hell out of me. I would have dosed off but sadly, the obstinately repetitive, very annoying musical soundtrack kept me awake.
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Pickpocket | 9 93rd |
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Tony Leung always seems to grab my attention as he is so interesting to watch and it's really no different here. The amazing cinematography added so much to the film though. Also loved the editing and the score was great too. Caught me a bit off guard as it's like nothing I've seen before but when it was all said and done I felt the weight of the story hit me. Can't wait to see it again, as my score will probably go up with repeated viewings.
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Alex Watkins | 6 98th |
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An understated ballet of restrained longing, as two would-be lovers deny their feelings for one another merely for the sake of propriety. It's a heartbreaking romance that's hardly a romance at all-conveyed in sidelong glances, glancing touches, a head on a shoulder-and all the more affecting for it. They willingly let love slip through their fingers like the sands of time until all that's left is memories, fading fast, and the regret of lost opportunity.
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doctor7 | 94 97th |
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A very erotic film filled with rich colours. Beautifully shot with an amazing soundtrack. I would consider this to be, quite literally, painting with cinema.
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willofgaia | 100 98th |
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Wong Kar-Wai's masterpiece. Few filmmakers can expertly balance love and affairs like he does, and Christopher Doyle provides some beautiful cinematography, as usual.
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PeaceAnarchy | 88 90th |
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In trying to describe this film the word that keeps coming to mind is stylish. The music, the colours, the camera angles, the acting all create very specific mood that's really hard to describe and very captivating. It's strange how a film can be so simple and yet feel so deep at the same time. I could tell exactly what was going to happen and I can't say I was ever completely captured by the film and yet something about it just really drew me in. Definitely an experience I'd like to repeat.
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goremeat | 100 99th |
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Utterly brilliant. The confinement set against a very sincere longing came across beautifully with a perfectly harmonious marriage of narrative, sound and visual. Cinematographically marvellous; and mood almost unmatched across all of film.
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Paxton | 89 96th |
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Beautifully shot, elegantly acted, and honorably honest to it's own convictions, it is an actual love story. Tony Leung is the definition of cool in this movie.
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gokhanince | 97 99th |
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All those slow motion scenes and the respective moments sent shivers down my spine, for it was like being able to see the 'feelings' in their most solid and concrete form. Moreover, it made me feel as if I was a part of this moment and imprisoned me to enjoy and to suffer as intensely as they did. Too creepy how Wong managed to achieve that, but the movie was extraordinarily ueber-magnificent.
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Quicky | 88 93rd |
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Love stories don't get much more beautiful than this, if ever. Excellent use of music, great cinematography that sets the mood really well with slow ingenious shots. I loved the script actually with the clever use of 'enacted' scenes to draw the viewer closer and enhance the drama. Oh and... Maggie Cheung is sexy as hell...
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| 2 | IHateMovies | 90 75th |
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Has some of the most brilliant camera work I've ever seen, a beautiful plot, and fantastic acting performances. Loved it.
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INDYATMN | 80 58th |
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Arguably the most beautifully shot movie of all time. Score is also mournfully beautiful& captures what Wai is going 4: conveying a FEELING of sadness& regret rather than a narrative - a good thing since there's little story. Unfortunately 1 can only watch so many hushed whispers, furtive glances, & slo-mo walking no matter how impecably lit. Unless u've kidded urself into fully embracing arthouse pretension & enjoy watching variations on the same scene over & over, u'll b bored when not moved.
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NathanDarko | 98 98th |
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In the Mood for Wong KarWai...Ever & ever again.His Movies make you feel love & desire..He plays with erotic moments...strong colours, the Music is unique..In the Mood for love is a very slow Movie that sometimes set me in trance.
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xav2nice | 100 99th |
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Mon film préféré ! Le coup de foudre entre une femme et un homme déjà mariés et qui ne veulent pas casser leurs couples, quitte à passer à côté du grand amour... une merveille de pudeur et de sensibilité. Les photos, les couleurs et la musique sont magiques.
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| 2 | autocrat | 100 98th |
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A sensual poem constructed with few words and many images.
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Yiannos | 73 77th |
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The mixed impression remains. On one hand it's masterful in its handling of mood, tone, texture and movement; in its complete refusal to reveal all of its secrets. But on the other hand there is an archness to the overall delivery that detracts somewhat from the emotional experience. In short, there is too much 'work' evident here when it ought to be a relatively simple sensualist affair.
When it works, the spell is intoxicating. When it doesn't, it's simply a pretty diversion.
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MartinTeller | 83 77th |
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I can praise the exquisite visual style, achieved in splendid color by two great cinematographers. And I can mention Wong's trademark repeated use of musical cues. I could point out how beautifully the film works with confined space, and the multiple reflections as a metaphor for how Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan are mirroring their spouses. But what I can't articulate is why I don't love the movie more. It's got so many qualities that I appreciate, but it... just doesn't grab me enough.
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| 1 | Oedipax | 96 91st |
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Beautiful.
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JohnnyZombie | 93 91st |
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I personally prefer Chungking Express, but this is an absolutely heartbreaking but beautiful film.
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th_mertens | 87 94th |
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While My Blueberry Nights was style over substance this one is so well balanced. Christopher Doyle's camerawork attributes magnificently to the story, with various blurring and shutter time techniques he really captures the tensions in between Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan. ... The reoccuring theme songs are brilliant and the tempered acting is done with so much fragility that you can't help getting sucked into all this drama.
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Nathan S | 5 93rd |
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A moody and rhythmic film, the entire thing hangs on a dissonant note of mutual but unconsummated affection. It's subtle and understated, full of warm and passionate hues that nevertheless occupy narrow and repressive corridors. Maggie Cheung's wardrobe, a series of stunning dresses, is beautiful. The slow motion interludes, repeatedly accompanied by an exquisite waltz theme, are a point of choreographic genius. The whole film is just layer upon layer of sensuous textures.
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Space Pope | 90 96th |
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christ I'm lonely
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twincinema | 80 75th |
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Poetry on film. Meaning, I didn't get it, and I had to refer to some dude's 5000-word essay on what the colour red signifies in this film.
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caiman | 92 95th |
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This movie is fucking smooooth. From the gliding camera to the rhythmic pacing to the intermittent use of slow motion, this movie slides along like a beautiful dream. Kar Wai Wong has a wonderfully refined confidence to his style. The camerawork is wonderful, the acting is superb, and the colors - my god the colors. And on top of all this you've got an engrossing, elegantly told story of forbidden love. I got lost in this movie and loved every second of it.
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Suture Self | 6 54th |
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Beautiful visuals. The use of color, the gliding tracking shots, the intimacy of the camera angles, the sublime atmosphere; the entire film is gorgeously rendered. That being said, the love story wasn't as engaging as I hoped it to be, but it was still moving nonetheless.
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febraro | 95 97th |
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Wong subtly makes would-be romances look like the most tragic thing in the world.
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sensei | 90 93rd |
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Tony Leung eating a dumpling with a pained expression on his face is the best part.
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KasperL | 80 86th |
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Utterly beautiful to look at. A few of Wong Kar Wai's choices I didn't particularly care for (an example would be the scene that repeats) but his ability in the style department is off the charts.
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| 1 | DVicknabb | 94 77th |
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Wowzers. Wong Kar-Wai, with one swift blow, has shown me that he is one of the best directors working today, if not the best.
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| 1 | scurry | 100 99th |
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There is no equal to this. Stylish shots, restrained acting and Maggie Cheung's cheongsams. Perfectly contained.
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| 1 | bharath | 90 99th |
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Amazing movie, a beautiful love story. The story, direction and acting is just awesome. The movie keeps you occupied all through. The background score is perfect. One of my top movies, a must see for all.
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KAH | 4 93rd |
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Great cinematography and use of music, and some nice, understated acting. The power of this film lies in the calm and attentive approach to the little moments of genuine affection. Beautiful, if not as emotionally affecting as Happy Together. I can see this growing on me though.
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Bown | 92 95th |
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How can such a chaste, subdued movie be so emotionally fraught?
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jmarkthespot | 90 93rd |
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Brilliant and beautiful use of film, not too mention it solidifies my belief that Kar Wai Wong will be remembered as one of the great directors in the early 21st century. I've always had this weird intuition that there was a film somewhere out there that accomplishes everything this does, and I'm happy to say I found it. The acting, writing, and cinematography is flawless. One of the best (anti) love stories I've ever encountered.
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mwgerb | 70 86th |
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Lovely, subtle, and brilliantly directed. It develops a wonderful atmosphere over the course of the film. It almost feels like what you'd get if Kubrick made a romance (and if he didn't have a dark, misanthropic streak). Aesthetically wonderful, even if the story is a bit, short, simplistic, and slow. Score may improve on repeat viewings.
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Cinema_Asia | 95 98th |
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This film is an example of love of film and what the medium can accomplish. Wong Kar Wai plays our emotions like a guitar with a mastery of color, music, and gorgeous visuals. There is no need for wordy exposition as everything you need to know is there frame by frame you just have to pay attention.
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Augusto | 95 78th |
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It's pure art. Cinema in the best meaning of the word.
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| 1 | Agentsands77 | 85 91st |
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Astonishing.
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Noblet | 82 76th |
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Everything in this film works so well, the acting, music, camera movements and the unbearably repressed atmosphere all make for an excellent romance film. However, that same feeling of repression kept me from really loving it. All I can do is strongly admire it.
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afx237vi | 90 95th |
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Such a simple story, but the way the narrative unfolds and the exquisite way in which it is filmed make it utterly compelling. Terrific, subtle, acting performances by Cheung and Leung... they draw you in to their relationship with each glance as they pass in the street. The camerawork is incredibly imaginative, too - intimate, but always outside looking in, just like the two main characters.
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NunMak | 77 94th |
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Mood is something this movie does not lack, with its gorgeous cinematography and intoxicating music, but the characters' motivations feel flimsy and their decisions forced, like pawns in the hands of a particularly cunning storyteller; thus, unfortunately, the movie never felt as heartbreaking to me as it did to some, as the strings were too obvious to ignore.
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toxicwind | 6 29th |
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The costumes were stunning and the cinematography was nothing to scoff at, but the movie went nowhere... Did I miss something?
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mattorama12 | 63 43rd |
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I guess the (understandable) reason that people seem to love this is that Kar-Wai excels in his use of the cinematic language to tell the story. But I cannot say that I enjoyed this, largely due to the incredibly deliberate pacing.
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koliak2991 | 87 84th |
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Great cinematography, beautiful color palette
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| 1 | OllieTT | 70 48th |
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Moody - perhaps to a fault.
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| 1 | ralyto | 89 87th |
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I actually feel bad rating this movie after a single viewing. It was a different kind of cinema to what I'm used to, full of subtlety and careful crafting. It really feels like I need to watch it again to fully appreciate this gem. There is a lot of promise there. The score is fantastic. Second viewing: the movie is a pleasure to watch. Scenes are like snapshots in time, playing like a memory, very graceful and precise. The film is very poetic.
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| 1 | doyler29 | 100 96th |
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This is an exquisite film. Love between characters in many films seems kind of abstract ... something you believe exists because the film tells you it does, but you never really feel it pulling on you. This films consistently narrow, cramped spaces lock you in with the deeply suppressed emotions and you can feel the longing and anxiety quite vividly.
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| Average Percentile 75.03% from 4914 Ratings |  |