- Doc
Whispers in the Woods
Multiple dates
Country
Hong Kong
Year
2000
Language
Cantonese spoken, English subtitles
Actors
Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Director
Wong Kar Wai
Duration
98 min
Featuring photography by Wong Kar Wai's favourite cameraman Christopher Doyle, this love waltz is still considered an unsurpassed portrait of restrained, passionate sensuality.
When critics praise a film’s smoothly gliding camera, elegant editing, images in pleasing slow motion, and actors who move in graceful ways, they refer to its kinetic beauty. Perhaps no film in recent memory exemplifies this beauty of movements more brilliantly than Wong Kar-wai’s stylish melodrama In the Mood for Love (2000). Regularly listed among the best films of the 21st century, the film tells the heart-breaking story of two lovers—played by Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung—in 1960s Hong Kong. A film that is as movingly beautiful as it is beautifully moving.
With introduction
Introduction by Julian Hanich about kinetic beauty
Cinematic Beauty
“Beauty alone makes the whole world happy, and each and every being forgets its limitations while under its spell,” the poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller claimed. Cinema is particularly well-suited for delightful encounters with beauty. During the Cinematic Beauty film program we watch seven films, with an introduction, each of which sheds a different light on beauty. In collaboration with the University of Groningen.
Agenda
There are no new dates planned (yet) for Cinematic Beauty: In The Mood For Love.
