THE CRITERION COLLECTION Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan (Chungking Express’s Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) and Su Li-Zhen (Irma Vep’s Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk) move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-Bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.