In The Mood For Love

A ‘will they or won’t they’ romantic drama in which rooming-house neighbours vow to not be like their spouses, whom they suspect of having an affair. Pay attention to Maggie Cheung’s impeccable posture and to the part in Tony Leung’s slicked hair, and that’ll tell you everything you need to know about the characters’ moral rectitude and the mounting romantic tension between them. Every frame of this gorgeous film is saturated with reds and the cello score aches with romantic longing – illustrative of the film’s central tension between repression and abandon. – Dennis Sabourin