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🎬 “DESEANDO AMAR” [Fa yeung nin wa / In the Mood for Love]
🔎 Género: Romance / Drama / Años 60 / Película de culto
⌛️ Duración: 95 minutos
✍️ Guión: Wong Kar-Wai
🎼 Música: Michael Galasso
📷 Fotografía: Christopher Doyle y Mark Lee
🗯 Argumento: Año 1962 en la ciudad de Hong Kong; Tony Chiu Wai Leung (Chow), redactor jefe de un diario local, se muda con su mujer a un edificio habitado por residentes de Shanghai. Allí conoce a Su Li-zhen, una joven que acaba de instalarse en el mismo edificio con su esposo. Ella es secretaria de una empresa de exportación y su marido está siempre en viaje de negocios. Como la esposa de Chow también está casi siempre fuera de casa, ambos pasan cada vez más tiempo juntos y se hacen muy amigos… hasta que un día, ambos descubren algo inesperado sobre sus respectivos cónyuges.
👥 Reparto: Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping-Lam, Tung Cho Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Kelly Lai Chen, Man-Lei Chan, Kam-Wah Koo, Szu-Ying Chien, Paulyn Sun y Roy Cheung.
📢 Dirección: Wong Kar-Wai
© Productoras: Block 2 Pictures, Paradis Films & Jet Tone Production
🌎 Países: Hong Kong-Francia
📅 Año: 2000
📽 Proyección:
📆 Jueves 11 de Enero
🕗 8:00pm.
🎦 Cine Caleta (calle Aurelio de Souza 225 - Barranco)
🚶♀️🚶♂️ Ingreso libre
🙂 A tener en cuenta: Prohibido el ingreso de bebidas y comidas. 🌳💚🌻🌛
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”Antes, si alguien tenía un secreto que no quería compartir, ¿sabes lo que hacía? Subía a una montaña, buscaba un árbol, le hacía un agujero y susurraba el secreto en el agujero. Luego lo cubría con barro y dejaba el secreto allí para siempre.”
Fa yeung nin wa (In the Mood for Love) (2000) by Wong Kar-Wai
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Review: Fa yeung nin wa/In the Mood for Love (2000)
“Fa yeung nin wa” is written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai (who also did “Chungking Express”), starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, who give a great performance. The prequel of “In the Mood for Love” is “Days of Being Wild”, and the sequel is “2046“, all directed by Wong.
Besides having beautiful cinematography, Wong’s movies are complicated and sometimes a little hard to follow, since he likes to use symbolism and metaphors, instead of directly showing what is going on. Sometimes he’s so vague, it makes you feel lost (is she thinking that, or did that really happen? what does that look mean? who is talking to who?). The storyline is almost non-existent, yet the film requires all your attention, although there is only little dialog.
Set in Hong Kong, 1960′s, Mr. Chow Mo-Wan moves into a new building with his wife, coincidentally at the same time Mrs. Chan and her husband move in. Important to note, in the 60′s many apartments in Hong Kong (and other parts of the world) were shared, so all the neighbors were like a community and used the same kitchen, living room and bathrooms.
There’s only little privacy, everyone knows everything that is going on in that building, the camera captures that narrowness very well. What also immediately stands out in the first scenes, is that Chow’s wife and Chan’s husband’s faces are never shown.
Since their spouses are often away, Chow and Chan spend most of their time alone after work. But soon, they realize that their partners are having an affair with each other, and probably live together overseas. Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship (although they are both very secretive about it, since they want to avoid gossip). They ask themselves, how did the relationship with those two start/develop? After spending months together, even if they can’t admit it at first, they fall in love with each other as well (“feelings can creep up just like that”). Chan doesn’t want to leave her husband, and Chow moves away eventually.
It’s a rather bittersweet love story, that never truly becomes one, since guilt, fear and morals don’t let it happen. I thought that Tony and (super stylish) Maggie did a great job, capturing the sadness, desperation and longing their characters felt when they were alone, and the happiness and uncomfortableness they felt when together. Simply for their acting, and the unique directing, this classic Hong Kong movie is worth watching.
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