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In the Mood for Love 2001
HONG KONG · 2025

In the Mood for Love 2001

Wong Kar-Wai
convenience store food and consumption urban isolation fleeting human connection Wong Kar-wai's visual style
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Synopsis

Set in a convenience store, this short film was originally intended as the third segment of Wong Kar-wai’s unrealized anthology film Three Stories About Food. It is now considered the prototype for My Blueberry Nights (2007).

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