In the Mood for Love

Wearing Time: Past Present Future Dream | London
Written By Fashion In Film
Hong Kong, 2000. Director Wong Kar-Wai. 98min.

Wong Kar-Wai’s meditation on the way layers of separation create a mood for love in the close confines of 1960s Hong Kong derives an erotic atmosphere from the restrictions on romance. Two characters, married to other people who they discover are having an affair, actually avoid initiating their own affair in spite of mutual attraction. The closely tailored, formal clothes worn by Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai seem to express this intense but controlled love by concealing any glimpses of flesh while clinging to their bodies. Muted colours begin to blossom with unfulfilled promises, but ever-present possibilities.

With Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung and Ping Lam Siu.
Costumes by William Chang.

Past screenings

Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream – London
Friday 17 March 2017, 18:00 | Curzon, Soho
With an introduction by film critic Ian Haydn Smith.

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