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In the Mood for Love

  • Wong Kar-Wai
  • 99 min
  • China, Hong Kong
  • 2000
  • Fiction
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Linda Wassberg won the Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award in 2021 for Tove, directed by Zaida Bergroth. Here, she selects a film that left a great impression on her already when she was a film student.

Christopher Doyle, “the rockstar of cinematographers,” began collaborating with Wong Kar-Wai in the beginning of the nineties. Doyle and Kar-Wai conjured an emotional, visual dramaturgy without the actual propulsion of a dramatic narrative. Their cinematographic language was unique and innovative, and as a young film student it also left a huge impression on me. Doyle’s compositions were specifically dynamic and fragmentary with potent, singular images. The cinematography extensively interpreted the characters’ inner journeys. Something that I am eager to work with as a point of departure in the films I make today.

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Language
Chinese, French, Spanish
Subtitles
Swedish
Original title
Fa yeung nin wah
Director
Wong Kar-Wai
Screenplay
Wong Kar-Wai
Cinematographers
Christopher Doyle , Ping Bin Lee , Pun-Leung Kwan
Editor
William Chang
Music
Shigeru Umebayashi , Michael Galasso
Cast
Siu Ping-Lam , Maggie Cheung , Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung , Tony Chiu-Wai Leung