--- title: 'In the Mood for Love (2000)' type: 'film' director: 'Wong Kar-wai' released: '2000-05-20' runtime_minutes: 98 certification: 'PG' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Romance' countries: - 'Thailand' - 'Hong Kong' - 'France' themes: - 'Food as Character' - 'The Wordless Stretch' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/in-the-mood-for-love-2000' review_count: 1 fandom_rating: '9.00/10' fandom_stars: '4.50/5' imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # In the Mood for Love (2000) 2000 · PG · 98 min · Drama, Romance · Thailand, Hong Kong, France Original title: 花樣年華 Part of: Love trilogy ## Synopsis In the Mood for Love is a 2000 romantic drama film written, directed, and produced by Wong Kar-wai. An international co-production between Hong Kong and France, the film follows a man and a woman in 1962 who discover that their spouses are having an affair. As they spend time together, they gradually develop feelings for one another. It is the second installment in an informal trilogy, preceded by Days of Being Wild (1990) and followed by 2046 (2004). ## Credits - **Director:** [Wong Kar-wai](https://cinepixo.com/people/wong-kar-wai) - **Screenplay:** [Wong Kar-wai](https://cinepixo.com/people/wong-kar-wai) - **Producer:** [Wong Kar-wai](https://cinepixo.com/people/wong-kar-wai) - **Original Music Composer:** [Michael Galasso](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-galasso), [Shigeru Umebayashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/shigeru-umebayashi) - **Director of Photography:** [Christopher Doyle](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-doyle-2), [Mark Lee Ping Bin](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-lee-ping-bin), [Kwan Pun Leung](https://cinepixo.com/people/kwan-pun-leung) - **Editor:** [William Chang](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-chang) ## Cast - [Maggie Cheung](https://cinepixo.com/people/maggie-cheung) - [Kelly Lai Chen](https://cinepixo.com/people/kelly-lai-chen) - [Tony Leung](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-leung) - [Joe Cheung Tung-joe](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-cheung-tung-joe) - [Roy Cheung](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-cheung) - [Rebecca Pan](https://cinepixo.com/people/rebecca-pan) - [Laurent Courtiaud](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurent-courtiaud) - [Julien Carbon](https://cinepixo.com/people/julien-carbon) - [Ping Lam Siu](https://cinepixo.com/people/ping-lam-siu) - [Chin Tsi-ang](https://cinepixo.com/people/chin-tsi-ang) - [Paulyn Sun](https://cinepixo.com/people/paulyn-sun) ## Themes & motifs - [Food as Character](https://cinepixo.com/topics/food-as-character) (motif) — Noodles carried up a stairwell, dinners ordered for two people pretending to be alone: the meal is where the affair both happens and does not. - [The Wordless Stretch](https://cinepixo.com/topics/the-wordless-stretch) (motif) — Whole scenes pass in slow motion with nothing but Yumeji's Theme over them — what the two of them never say is the entire film. Editorial, not imported: every axis and every sentence above was written here. ## Criticism on CinePixo Fandom rating: **9.00/10** (4.50 of 5) from 1 review — the plain average of every published rating. - **9.0/10** — [Desire in the Space Between Two Doorways](https://cinepixo.com/reviews/desire-in-the-space-between-two-doorways) by Dorothy Kwan, 2026-08-14 > In the Mood for Love turns restraint into a physical sensation: every hallway is too narrow, every song returns too soon, and every glance arrives carrying the touch the film withholds. Official site: http://www.wkw-inthemoodforlove.com/eng/homepg/homepg.asp Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/in-the-mood-for-love-2000 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1056853); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.