Get Your Reps In: Feel “In the Mood for Love” Before Valentine’s Day

In the Mood for Love (2000)

A romance so visually sumptuous there ought to be a coffee table book devoted just to Maggie Cheung’s rotating floral dresses, In the Mood for Love screens Jan. 21 at Clinton Street Theater. Wong Kar-Wai’s undisputed 2000 masterpiece savors two of the most beautiful people ever committed to celluloid—Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai. The Hong Kong movie icons play new neighbors circa 1962 whose significant others are increasingly, conspicuously absent from their home and love lives. What are the two lonely hearts to do but explore each other’s? Clinton, Jan. 21.

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