Friday, October 14, 2011
TOO LONG AT THE FAIR
Today's film was Wong Kar-Wai's
Fa yeung nin wa / In the Mood for Love (2001).
Tony Leung (Cannes Best Actor) and Maggy Cheung. Both favorites.
A man and woman meet. Live next door. Discover their spouses are having an affair. They try to start one. Or something. Neither has the stuff to do it or maybe the charge is not that great or perhaps they realize that they are doing this because of their spouses and not for themselves.
Nat King Cole score. "Perhaps". Perfect.
There are other members of the Wong stock company as well as a bit about the tree that people whisper secrets into. This has been in three or four of his films. Also other familiar motifs.
The same fantastic editing and cinematography.
A masterwork.
I have already seen it three times. Still works.
Such subtleties.
A 5 out of Netflix 5.
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