I guess my challange is to try to understand why there are so many people who fell in love with this movie. No plot, meaningless scenes (Cambodia scenes), slow, and a stupid ending. I can't resist but ask the questions: is it the romantic music that made people love this movie? or do they just think that they're supposed to love this movie like we were told to find the "Mona Lisa smile" amazing?… Expand

Such a Piece of Art.

Moving, erotic and beautiful. I haven't enjoyed a film so much in a long long time. The abstract ending just about gets away with it. The male lead is particularly compelling, the soundtrack is superb and and the photography is beautifully grainy and organic (DEATH TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY).

This movie looks really nice. If you like movies that look nice. You should try looking at the screen when this movie is playing. Some cool smoky shots with some nifty fifties dresses. It is basically Lost in Translation's Dad. Sofia Coppola owes quite a bit of debt to the Wong Kar Wai.

That "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" could be nominated for Oscars and "In The Mood For Love" could be totally ignored is a testament to the anti-poetic thinking that is the foundation of Hollywood.

This film can make you feel so romantic and sensible, it is perfect with music behind. Alot to think about.

Stylish and full of exquisite feeling, this film is ninety minutes of pure, distilled longing.

While the movie was very stylish and beautiful to view, the story line left me confused at times. There were too many gaps in this very slow moving movie.

Not a one thing happens! They just sit there, and not a single damn thing happens! And god, but it's moving and haunting and poetic while it does. Or doesn't. (I'd also like to add that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Etc is as poetic and masterful a film as you're likely to see, and was as utterly deserving of the Oscars as Mood For Love would have been. Maybe nominating two Chinese films would have been seen as bias. Which shouldn't have stopped them anyway...)… Expand

A languorous dance of a movie, with a beautiful style. Some gaps at the end (not really a denouement), perhaps due to sloppy editing in the US release, kept me from giving it a 10. A note: the trailer I saw two years ago was misleading: it implies that the central characters only pass each other on the stairway and have no real involvement. In the film they do develop an actual relationship.

there is no director like wong kar wai who in every movie explores the stale and done state of love. but somehow he makes this theme more beautiful every movie and this movie is the pinecale of films about love. there is no sure way to describe this movie to someone because of the seemingly thin plot and its experience. somehow one has to create their own definition to be engaged with it. the details that every shot contains begs multiple viewings and the cinematic response to the repeated settings and music is something of an awe experience. hands down one of the best movies of the new mellenium.… Expand

Beautiful, poetic - it just sucks your heart into its poigance.

Absolutely beautiful--Wong Kar Wai does it again. This is a visual masquerade, where the background sets the mood as much as the situation. Gorgeous cinematography; beautiful colors. And the acting is superb. This is one of the movies where silence is just as important as dialogue, but rather than bore you, it creates a mood of its own. Why this wasn't nominated for Best Foreign Film is beyond me; its subtlety and stillness leave you awestruck.… Expand

Beautiful, romantic, moody. Sensous, moving visually and emotionally. What a treat to the eyes and the hearts. A testament to what a craftman can do with the medium.

An absolutely spectacular movie, one of the very best films of the 2000s... (I wish I could say the same for 2046, which was so unexpectedly awful I still can't believe (apart from the visual style and casting) was the same director)... Still, In the Mood for Love is one of the most hauntingly romantic movies I have ever seen. It's a genuine masterpiece and can be appreciated by anyone... without ADD.… Expand

Wong's peerless masterpiece, this film is a harrowingly romantic and lyrical meditation on unrequited love, memory, and repression.

This film is an example of how truly moving a romance can be, blows any recent Hollywood romance completely out of the water.

"In The Mood For Love" is easily one of the best art-house achievements of the decade, striking all of the qualities a good film should have while remaining unique to itself. Wong's use of color, repetition, and his unique delivery of revelation and plot development complement perfectly to the two lead actors' performances, which were reason enough to watch this movie.

Enchanting cinematic art Love has it's own erratic language in Wong Kar-Wai's masterful love-story which is set in Hong Kong 1962 and tells the story of news editor Chow Mo-Wan who has recently moved in to a crowded apartment complex with his wife, and at approximately the same time the beautiful secretary Su Li-Zen moves in to that same place with her husband. Chow and Sus spouses are often away on foreign travels due to their jobs which eventually leads to Chow and Su becoming more and more lonely. After numerous coincidental meetings in the neighborhood a conversation occurs and the news editor and secretary realizes the kinship of their situations. One night Chow invites Su to dinner confiding her in his suspicion about their spouses having an affair. Su admits that she's had similar thoughts, but none of them has any solid evidence. Their intimate conversation gradually turns to regular dinner meetings where these two modest individuals find a unifying chemistry, and in time a subtle romance comes to life. The two leading characters are portrayed as introverted, somewhat static and well educated people with high morals, and brought to life through Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung's low-keyed and emotionally demanding performances. Wong Kar-Wai wants us to emphasize with our hero and heroine even though we are aware of the fact that they are about to commit the same deception as their spouses have done. That one feels emphatic towards Chow and Su is hardy unavoidably considering what they are coming to terms with, but Wong Kar-Wai's real masterpiece is that he has us sitting through most of the film wishing for the main characters to become lovers. The esoteric dialog is convincingly communicated and Shigeru Umebayashi's theme song "Yumeji's Theme" is like a hymn to Chow and Su's tranquil and romantic friendship. "In the Mood for Love" is a film that lives on it's on terms and invites the viewer into a dreamlike, poetic and hypnotically beautiful universe. It's without clichés, filled with hope and contains lyrical shades that makes the film seem like one great love poem or an exploration of human behavior affected by love. This unforgettable slow-moving tale from one of the greatest visual storytellers in modern cinema stands alongside "The Piano" (1993) as one of the most profound love stories i've ever seen.… Expand

it challenged my patience to watch this movie.i couldn't find any plot in this movie. i didn't push the slow motion button on my remote control,but why the movie was so slow?i just couldn't imagine if i pushed the slow motion button,what would happen to this movie?would it be more slower than usual? this movie's overhasty.