Reviews

Don't miss any scene because the movie is bizarre and crazy but you will leave the movie house feeling great! David Lynch is a master of surrealism, it's my first Lynch movie and I am now a believer! If you like Dali, Ernst, Bellmer, you will like this piece of art.

I have to view the movie twice, once by reading the subtitles, and the second time to enjoy the movie itself. When I was reading the subtitles, I found "Flowers of Shanghai" boring. When I focused on the film itself, it was actually a nice movie. I could feel the opium filled air, the emotions of the characters were buried under the smokes. Only a small number of Chinese-speaking audience would have no need to read the subtitles because the dialogs were spoken in a specific dialect.

We saw the film in San Francisco. Women were talking about how beautiful Maggie's Cheung's Chinese dresses were in the movie, another triumphant manipulation of music, colors, objects and background by director Wong Kar-Wai and his team. I can listen to Yumeiji's Theme over and over again, it creates such a mood for love as suggested by its English title: "In The Mood For Love". Some of the scenes were reproduction of scenes from other Wong Kar-Wai movies (Chung-King Express, Happy Together, etc.) The experience is like having a secret Rendenzvous with Wong's characters, I just love it!