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In The Mood For Love (Original Soundtrack) [Import]

In The Mood For Love (Original Soundtrack) [Import]

Analog Dept. | CAT #: ANAD-3524496

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KEY FEATURES

  • 1xLP pressed on Burgundy Red with Black Splatter Vinyl
  • Limited LITA Exclusive Edition
  • Comes in cardboard jacket with gatefold style, booklet and 22″ × 32″ Poster
  • A selection of Chinese opera titles, mandarin classics, jazz favorites by Nat King Cole
  • Featuring with Shigeru Umebayashi and Michael Galasso
  • Including classic tracks “Yumeji’s Theme” and “Angkor Wat Themes"

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ARTIST: Various Artists
LABEL: Analog Dept.
CAT NO: ANAD-3524496
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  • Soundtrack
  • Jazz
  • Folk / Country

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In the Mood for Love (Chinese: 花樣年華; lit. 'Flowery Years') is a 2000 romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Wong Kar-wai. A co-production between Hong Kong and France, it portrays a man (Tony Leung) and a woman (Maggie Cheung) in 1962 whose spouses have an affair together and who slowly develop feelings for each other. It forms the second part of an informal trilogy, alongside Days of Being Wild[6] and 2046.

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2000,[7] to critical acclaim and a nomination for the Palme d'Or; Leung won Best Actor (the first Hong Kong actor to win the award). It is often listed as one of the greatest films of all time and one of the major works of Asian cinema. In a 2016 survey by the BBC, it was voted the second greatest film of the 21st century by 177 film critics from around the world, saying ""never before has a film spoken so fluently in the universal language of loss and desire"". In 2022, the film placed 5th in Sight & Sound's ""Greatest Films of All Time"" critics' poll, rising from its previous position of 24th in 2012. It is the highest-ranked film since 1975.[

Synopsis

In 1962 British Hong Kong, Shanghainese expatriates Chow Mo-wan, a journalist, and Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan), a secretary at a shipping company, rent rooms in adjacent apartments. Each has a spouse who works and often leaves them alone on overtime shifts. Due to the friendly but overbearing presence of Su's Shanghainese landlady, Mrs. Suen, and their bustling, mahjong-playing neighbours, Chow and Su are often alone in their rooms and rarely dine with the other tenants. Although they initially are friendly to each other only as need be, they grow closer as they realize that their spouses are having an affair with each other, and subsequently try to reenact how the affair might have begun.

Chow invites Su to help him write a martial arts serial. Their increased time together draws the attention of their neighbors, leading Chow to rent a hotel room where they can work together undistracted. As time passes, they acknowledge that they have developed feelings for each other. When Chow takes a job in Singapore, he asks Su to go with him. She agrees but arrives at the hotel too late to accompany him.

The next year, in Singapore, Chow relays a story to his friend about how in older times, when a person had a secret, they would go atop a mountain, make a hollow in a tree, and whisper it into the hollow and cover it with mud. Su arrives at Singapore and visits Chow's apartment. She calls Chow but remains silent when Chow picks up the phone. Later, Chow realizes she has visited his apartment after seeing a lipstick-stained cigarette butt in his ashtray.

Three years later, Su visits Mrs. Suen, who is about to emigrate to the United States and inquires about whether her apartment is available for rent. Sometime later, Chow returns to Hong Kong to visit his former landlords the Koos, who have emigrated to the Philippines. He asks about the Suen family next door, and the new owner tells him a woman and her son are now living there. Chow leaves.

During the Vietnam War, Chow traveled to Cambodia and visited Angkor Wat. As a monk watches him, Chow whispers something into a hollow in a wall and plugs it with mud.

TRACKLIST

1. Mo-Wan's Dialogue
2. Yumeji's Theme
3. 妝台報喜 (Zhuang Tai Bao XI)
4. 情探 (Qing Tan)
5. 四郎探母 (Si Lang Tan Mu)
6. 桑園寄⼦ (Sang Yuan Ji Zi)
7. Aquellos Ojos Verdes
8. Li-Zhen's Dialogue
9. Te Quiero Dijiste
10. 雙雙燕 (Shuang Shuang Yan)
11. 花樣的年華 (Hua Yang de Nian Hua)
12. Quizas
13. Quizas
14. Quizas
15. Bengawan Solo (梭羅河畔)
16. 紅娘會張⽣ (Hong Niang Hui Zhang Sheng)
17. ⽉兒彎彎照九州 (Yue Er Wan Wan Zhau Jiu Zhou)
18. Angkor Wat Theme I
19. Angkor Wat Theme II
20. Angkor Wat Theme III
21. Itmfl I
22. Casanova Flute
23. Itmfl II
24. Itmfl III
25. Cello - Elena Borgo
26. Angkor Wat Theme Finale
27. Yumeji's Theme (Extended Version)
28. Li-Zhen's Dialogue

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