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In the Mood for Love

2000 · Romance · Wong Kar-wai · 1h 38m

Two neighbours in 1960s Hong Kong work out that their husband and wife are seeing each other, and start spending evenings together. Slow and quiet, mostly small talk in corridors and stairwells, in Cantonese.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly slow
  • Strongly intimate
  • Strongly character-driven

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