Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Kelly Lai Chen, Siu Ping-lam, Chin Tsi-Ang, Joe Cheung Tung-cho, Koo Kam-Wah, Chan Man-Lei, Julien Carbon, Charles de Gaulle, Laurent Courtiaud, Chow Po-chun
In Hong Kong of 1962, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow, a journalist, move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their respective spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
This is a fine piece of cinema from Wong Kar-Wai that tells us a story of two people whom circumstance throws together - but not in a way you might expect. We start with two couples who move into a new building. One a newspaper man with his wife, the other a business executive and his wife. The businessman is rarely at home, nor is the journalist's wife - which leaves the other two at increasingly...