My favourite film: In the Mood for Love

Peter Walker continues our writers' favourite film series with Wong Kar-Wai's melancholy tale of love and loneliness

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Peter Walker

Monday 19 December 2011

In the Mood for Love was released when I was living in Hong Kong, albeit a very different city to that of the film's 1962 setting. Like Tony Leung's Chow Mo-wan, I was also working there as a journalist. Sadly, that's where my resemblance to his almost absurdly handsome, mournfully dapper character begins and ends.