In the Mood for Love

"Named one of the 100 best films of the century by The New York Times. It would be technically correct, albeit limiting, to say that Fa yeung nin wah is one of the most beautiful films about love and heartache in cinema history. Released with the arrival of the new century - and millennium - but set in the crucial decade of the 60s for modern Asian history, Fa yeung nin wah is not only a postmodern ode to the desire for intimacy, but also to the inevitable transience of all that exists, whose remains are nothing more than intangible, unattainable, and increasingly blurred memories. Director Wong Kar-Wai manages to capture in the film the one thing that remains in the end: displacement, the feeling of being in a time and place that no longer exists and to which one always yearns to return."