iconic | timeless | stylish movie

Directed by Wong-Kar-Wai, In the mood for love is definitely what a movie intended as a work of art should be. When I first watched this film I couldn’t even imagine it fits so deeply my inspiration. The original Chinese title, meaning “the age of blossoms” or “the flowery years” stands for a Chinese metaphor for the fleeting time of youth beauty and love. It is a sad, elegant, refined and sensual story of love between two people who know they can’t be together, but they need and feel the presence of each other.

Clothes, make-up and interior design are elegant, stylish, and sophisticated. Everything is so sexy and delicate that you are not even sure what you have seen, nor can you tell exactly what, if anything, has happened.

Not only strong melodramatic colors. The director chose to be far from the characters; he rather hides the strongest emotions with a high narrative consciousness and reproduces well the sense of confidentiality, respect and distance that the two characters create around themselves. Looks so hidden, but also words not spoken, long silences of love that disappear.