Wong Kar wai's in the mood for love , is the hongkong film released in the year 2000. The film happens to be the second of the trilogies- days of being wild [1991] and 2046 [2004].

In the mood for love is immensely poetic film, with suggestive sequences and love between two married people played by Maggie Cheung [Su] and Tony Leung Chiu wai [Chow]. Set in 1962 Hongkong, Chow plays a journalist and Su is secretary in the shipping company. The two shift in a friendly neighbourhood and become neighbours. Gradually they find out that their spouses are seeing each other. The scene where the two are having dinner and the camera pans from one plate to the other from one face to the other, when Chow asks him where did she get that bag from he would like to gift his wife. She says the bag has been gifted by my husband, She asks him about his tie, which she would like to gift her husband and he says that his wife has bought that tie from over seas. Thats when we come to know that their spouses are seeing each other. It is one of those simplistic yet brilliant scenes which stay in your mind for ever.

The slow motion shots of them crossing each other the same stairs everyday, enhanced by the slow melodious heart wrenching back ground music takes your heart away. The suggestive shots of the phone ringing, the rain, the out of focus exterior shots are quite mesmerzing.

Despite the fact that they decide that they will not do what their spouses have done to them, they fall in love with each other. They meet each other on the pretext of writing a script.

But when Chow asks her to come with him to Singapore, she refuses. After years they are still unable to forget each other. Scenes where she calls him and then doesn't speak. Scene where he goes to the moutains and splurges the secret of his love for her into a hole [a chinese belief] are extraordinaire.

The film went on to becoming the foreign film to have won a BAFTA. It won best actors at Cannes 2000. Upon its release in America in Feb 2001, it won accolades, crossing, $US200,000.

In the mood for love is a treat for the romantic souls. Its one of those forever love stories which don't get culminated and we yearn for more. But it definitely is not a commercial potboiler. It's slow and absorbing. Its not for the titanic, my best friends wedding and ghost lovers.. Some people may get very dejected with no sex scenes as the scenes at time almost takes you there.

Some facts about the film- The script of the film was never written. The director just threw two people together in the circumstances. It was completely impromtu and thats what makes it more watchable, the non choreography part of it.