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Movie Review: In the Mood for Love

In the Mood For Love is a Hong Kong movie by Kar-wai Wong. I didn't like this as much as "Chungking Express" although it is probably a technically better quality movie. The acting is well done and appropriately subtle, the sets and costumes are all very nice (although I wonder how realistic it is that Mrs. Chan has so many really nice dresses...) and the plot doesn't follow all the typical dramatic conventions which is nice. Something about it, though, made it not completely click for me. It started out well, but towards the end it skips ahead through the chronology and I didn't quite understand all of the decisions all the characters made. Also, only including the spouses as voices seemed a little over-the-top in making the points I think that was supposed to make. I think this might be a movie to try watching again when I am more in the mood for this kind of restrained, subtle love story.