New Trailer for WKW’s ‘In the Mood for Love’ 2001 / 25th Anniversary

New Trailer for WKW’s ‘In the Mood for Love’ 2001 / 25th Anniversary

by Alex Billington
June 24, 2025
Source: Vimeo

“There’s nothing between us, but I don’t want to gossip.” Janus Films has released one more official trailer for the next re-release of Wong Kar Wai’s beloved romantic classic In the Mood for Love, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The film originally premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, and was first released in 2001 in the US. There was already a 4K restoration back in 2020, though now with the pandemic over it’s time to give this a proper theatrical re-release. Don’t miss it! Janus will screen the 4K restoration along with a rarely screened complementary tiny film titled In The Mood For Love 2001, which WKW originally showed during his Cannes 2001 masterclass. Two neighbors, a woman and a man, form a mighty bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs. It’s described as a “a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack & exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has secured a place in the cinematic canon, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.” Starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung as Chow Mo-wan and Mrs. Chan. This is such a gorgeous, special film. If it’s playing anywhere on the substantial screen near you, you simply must go see it.

Here’s the modern trailer for the 25th Anniversary of Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love, from Vimeo:

In The Mood For Love (originally opened in 2000, celebrating its 25th Anniversary) – Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (co-starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered & visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography shot by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence across the past 25 years of cinema.

In The Mood For Love 2001 (tiny film) – Initially conceived as one third of a triptych about food, In the Mood for Love was expanded into a stand-alone feature that won immediate recognition as a modern-day classic. Another third — intended as the “dessert,” as Wong Kar Wai has put it — was, until now, only screened during his masterclass at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Now available in wide release for the first time, In the Mood for Love 2001 demonstrates the director’s masterful ability to generate palpable atmosphere and striking characterizations on a miniature canvas—with In the Mood for Love stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk once again providing the sizzling chemistry — evoking the mystery of transient, unexpected connections in the state-of-the-art city through his inimitable romantic touch.

In the Mood for Love is both written and directed by acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai, his 7th feature film at the time, following As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Ashes of Time, Fallen Angels, and Happy Together before. The film originally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, where it also won Best Actor and the Technical Grand Prize. It also played at the Toronto & San Sebastian Film Festivals that year, then opened in US theaters in early 2001. The film was also re-released in 2000 with a 4K restoration (more here). Janus Films will re-release In the Mood for Love (with the tiny) in select US theaters starting June 27th, 2025. For the full listing of theaters, visit the film’s official site.

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