Wong Kar-wai's years-in-the-making sequel to IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) is an intoxicatingly beautiful, maddeningly elliptical and utterly enthralling meditation on the fleeting pleasures and haunting aftermath of doomed romance. In 1966, four years after journalist Mr. Chow (MOOD star Tony Leung) had his achingly chaste relationship with a married woman, heartbreak has transformed him into a lothario. His handsome face despoiled by a sleazy little moustache, Chow covers the tarnished glamour of Hong Kong's nightclub scene, where he runs into old acquaintance Lulu (Carina Lau) — though she swears her name is Mimi, and coyly declines to remember Chow — and ...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
129 mins