A beautifully shot film by Hong Kong director. Wong Kai-Wai (Chunking Express, Happy Together, Fallen Angels). It deserves its Cannes 2000 best actor, editing and cinematography awards. The editing is often but not evasive, at times giving the viewer partial views through windows, spaces where only conversations can be heard, almost echoing the growing relationship between the two lead actors, Tony Leung (Happy Together, Hard Boiled) and Maggie Cheung (Days of Being Wild, Ima Vep).
Chow (Young) is a junior newspaper editor with an elusive wife. His neighbour Li-zhen (Cheung), is a secretary whose husband seems to spend all his time away on business trips. They become friends, making polite conversation, meeting together to make their lonely evenings more bearable. Their relationship develops and...
The film is set in the sixties so the clothing and fabrics worn by Cheung reflect this period. The film is touching, at times funny, sexy, romantic and easy to watch. The music is fun, sexy, romantic and beautiful.
Very good extras on the second disc and clevery put together and not too pretentious like alot of Hollywood blockbusters, these are worth the space and money.
Deleted scenes, alternate ending, interview with the director, Wong Kai-Wai world tour, on set report, teaser trailers, international trailers, promotional trailer reel, cast and crew biographies, poster and stills galleries, costume and styling documentaries, analysis and reflections on the music, promotional spot for soundtrack, composer biographies, interactive Mah-Jong game (which I couldn't understand because I can't play Mah-Jong!), and recipes!