Repetition blends well with time which blends well with setting and ultimately dances around the story. You know what's happening because it's being shown before it's being told. Not much head space here, much head space there, blurred wall here, never showing the face there, it leaves you guessing but also doesn't leave you in the dark. He knows how tell a story not through grand dialogues but through body language which is through cinematography. Kar-wai channels his use of details to move the story forward without too much effort just with simple rain, simple change of clothes or simple montage that exert such beauty it takes your breath away.

From small gestures, to quick looks, ringing of the telephone and shots of the clock to show the passing of time, it allows you to venture into a unrequited love story that's not painful but not overly dramatic. Watching In the Mood for Love will make you in the mood for love. Rewatch Value 7.0 If Kar-wai's Chungking Express is an ode to romance, longing and 90s Hong Kong then In the Mood for Love is an ode to 60s Hong Kong, nostalgia and desire.

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