In the Mood for Love Review

Review of In the Mood for Love (2000) by screenqueeen: 👍 3.5/5

There's a detachment here that multiplies with each association, Mr. Chow's wife and Mrs. Su's husband breaking off into prismatic mirror images of really just an illusion of a fragmented and damaged self. Shots putting you in Chow and Su's developments like a voyeur entice, but once you're let into their intimate goings on you realize they're drying up in the obligations and expectations they've instilled into their respective marriages. There's a sorrow that doesn't quite connect, perhaps because of the need to dissimulate the raw emotions that just once, start baring through the pain they clearly feel but also are convinced they cannot act on. It's a sad thing to put such expectations on a relationship, it seems to be more damaging than constructive.

I'm more like Ping anyhow.