I was taken aback when I watched In the Mood for Love for my first time having ideas that the movie was simply an affair movie. What I turned out to be watching is two people the were suspecting their significant others of having the affair instead. Wong Kar Wai has beautifully crafted this movie over a lengthy period of 15 months and finished editing it within a week of it's debut in Cannes.
I was impressed that the scenes inside the house took place in what looks like such a small place. The intentions of the director must have been to put his characters in such tight quarters that they almost had to become intertwined. There wasn't anything else showing time passing but the differences in wardrobe for Maggie Cheung's character. And to do all of this with out a script must have been something of a miracle for the director and his actors. Cheung has been in at least 5 of the directors films since As Tears go By in 1988, so she knows his directing style.
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