Fa yeung nin wa (2000)

Director:

Kar Wai Wong

Guionista:

Kar Wai Wong (written by)

Release Date:

26 febrero 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

Feel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode.

Plot:

A man and a woman move in to neighboring Hong Kong apartments and form a bond when they both suspect their spouses of extra-marital activities.

Plot Keywords:

Husband Wife Relationship | Newspaper | Male Female Relationship | Famous Score | Rain

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 31 wins & 23 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Wonderful Hong Kong Art-house.

Cast

Maggie Cheung	...	Su Li-zhen - Mrs. Chan
Tony Leung Chiu Wai	...	Chow Mo-wan
Ping Lam Siu	...	Ah Ping
Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung	...	Man living in Mr. Koo's apartment
Rebecca Pan	...	Mrs. Suen
Kelly Lai Chen	...	Mr. Ho (as Lai Chen)
Man-Lei Chan	...	Mr. Koo
Tsi-Ang Chin	...	Amah
Roy Cheung	...	Mr. Chan (voice)
Paulyn Sun	...	Mrs. Chow (voice)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Po-chun Chow
Kam-wah Koo
Hsien Yu
Julien Carbon	...	French tourist (uncredited)
Laurent Courtiaud	...	French reporter (uncredited)
Charles de Gaulle	...	Himself (1966 visit to Cambodia) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Kar Wai Wong

Créditos del guión (in alphabetical order)
Kar Wai Wong		written by

Producida por
William Chang	....	associate producer
Ye-cheng Chan	....	executive producer
Gilles Ciment	....	co-executive producer
Jacky Pang Yee Wah	....	associate producer (as Jacky Pang Yee-Wah)
Kar Wai Wong	....	producer

Música original por
Michael Galasso		(as Mike Galasso)
Shigeru Umebayashi

Fotografía por
Christopher Doyle
Pin Bing Lee		(as Mark Lee Ping-bin)

Montaje por
William Chang

Diseño de producción por
William Chang

Diseño de vestuario por
William Chang

Art Department
Ping Lam Siu	....	property master

Production Companies

• Block 2 Pictures
• Jet Tone Production
• Paradis Films

Distributors

• Fortissimo Film Sales (2000) (worldwide) (all media) (international sales)
• Amboto Audiovisual S.L. (Spain)
• Artistas Argentinos Asociados (AAA) (2001) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• C-Films (2001) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• C-sales Arthouse Video (2001) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Cinema Mondo (2001) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Criterion Collection, The (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Criterion Film Corp. (DVD)
• Divisa Home Video (2004-2006) (Spain) (DVD)
• Filmcoopi Zürich (2000-2001) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Mei Ah Entertainment (2001) (Hong Kong) (DVD)
• Océan Films (2000) (France) (theatrical)
• Prokino Filmverleih (2000) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Shochiku Kinema Kenkyû-jo
• Solar Films (2004) (Philippines) (theatrical)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2005) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2005) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Triangelfilm (2001) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• USA Films (2001) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Universal Pictures (2001) (Germany) (DVD)
• Videoimpulse (2004) (Russia) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Asia Legend  opening title design
• Kantana Animation Co. Ltd.  film processing
• Kodak (Hong Kong) Ltd.  film supplied by
• Oriental Post Co. Ltd.  telecine
• Ramindra Sound Recording Studios  Dolby Digital sound mix
• Salon Films  equipment provided by
• True Technic Ltd.  sound re-recording

También conocida como:

In the Mood for Love (France) (Hong Kong: English title) (USA)
Beijing Summer (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Flower Like Years (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Hua yang nian hua (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Con ánimo de amar (Argentina) [es]
Deseando amar (Spain) [es]
In the Mood for Love (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG for thematic elements and brief language.

Duración:

98 min | Poland:94 min

País:

Hong Kong | France

Idioma:

Cantonese | Shanghainese | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Malaysia:U | South Korea:15 | Iceland:L | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Chile:TE | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:6 | Hong Kong:IIA | Ireland:PG | Netherlands:AL | Norway:A | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Bangkok, Thailand

Company:

Block 2 Pictures

Trivialidades:

Director Kar Wai Wong found the English title for "In the Mood for Love" while listening to a song from a Brian Ferry CD with a similar title, "I'm in the Mood for Love". It is a cover of a 1930s song with the same title, Kar Wai Wong used the title and the song in an early Hong Kong trailer of the film, and it was also used in the USA trailer of the film.

Goofs:

Continuity: Before Su Li-zhen bestowed her landlady with a electric rice cooker, there already was one sitting on the kitchen counter in an earlier scene.

Quotes:

Su Li-zhen Chan: You notice things if you pay attention.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Ying xiong: Cause - The Birth of Hero (2002) (V)

Soundtrack:

Yumeji's Theme

Wonderful Hong Kong Art-house.

Two people living in the same flat complex find their partners are having an affair with each other. As they try and piece together how it happened, they also embark on an emotional journey that aches for a resolution…

Building on his previous success with Happy Together and Chungking Express, Wong Kar Wai gives us this rather old fashioned and marvellous story of reawakened passions, yearning and unrequited love.

Possibly, In the Mood for Love is not to everyone's taste. It wanders in rather lazily at 98mins: not particularly long for a film, but it appears longer because not a lot really happens. But this lazy feel conceals a quite tightly constructed film. Most of the story is cunningly woven around a series of set piece role plays, where the characters act out presumed scenarios between their respective spouses, trying to work out how the affair started. I say cunning because, of course, this makes it difficult for the audience (and the characters) to tell what is "in-role" and what is genuine.

If all this sounds rather arty and self-conscience, that's because it is. Unashamedly so. And it is played to perfection by two of Hong Kong's finest, Maggie Cheung and Leung Chui Wai, with some excellent support from Ping Lam Siu and Rebecca Pan.

It is also a virtuoso performance by Wong Kar Wai, who treats the audience to a sensory, and sensual, overload. Bringing together Christopher Doyle (who later deployed his lush, over-ripe style on Hero) and Pin Bing Lee (whose beautifully understated style can be seen on Springtime in a Small Town) was cinematographic genius. It has all the bold beauty of Doyle, without, frankly, the Athena-poster cheesiness of his work on Hero. The music, as always with Wong, is prominent. From Nat King Cole singing in Spanish, to the haunting strings of the main theme, it perfectly matches the eclectic beauty of the images.

All in all a top film, whether judged on plot, acting, cinematography or soundtrack. Similar to, but more accessible than, Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, this is a beautiful, old fashioned story about love lost and regained.

And watch out for Tony Leung's hotel room 2046, which presaged Wong's recent film of the same name.