Events

Come see In the Mood for Love presented on 35mm film on the big screen in L3! 

Wong Kar-wai is the master of making loneliness and desperation seem beautiful and aesthetically desirable – In the Mood for Love allows you to rediscover the colour red and all the passion and love and yearning that comes with it. Two lonely neighbours in a Hong Kong apartment (Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung) are united in a shared experience; their spouses are away working and never spending time with them and, what’s more, it soon transpires that our protagonists are both being cheated on. As is typical for Wong Kar-wai, two characters can fall in love in the most unusual of ways. Small moments, the two neighbours passing closely on the stairs, are slowed down and savoured by Christopher Doyle’s iconic cinematography, as In the Mood for Love begins to evoke lots of small, familiar sensations: rain pattering against a window, cigarette smoke caught in the light, everything is so close you can almost touch it. That will only feel more tactile with the film being on a rare 35mm print! ‘Mood’ is the word indeed, an atmosphere which never resolves itself but draws you into its strangely melancholic yet desirable embrace; there’s no other film like it and there’s no better way to experience In the Mood for Love than on the big screen.

Daniel Kallin

The Warwick Student Cinema is a fully licensed independent cinema fully run by students. Find out more about us on our SU webpage or on our website.