Various Artists - Soundtracks - In the Mood for Love (2000 Film)
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Free Music Notes for In the Mood for Love (2000 Film)
Free Music Review: Music and movie perfectly matched
Hit: 5 Stars
All the passion, longing, and intensity of the film are supremely evoked by this soundtrack, particularly the two main themes, 'Yumeji' by Shigeru Umebayashi and 'Angkor Wat' by Michael Galasso. The cello solo in the latter will make you swoon.
The power of the film lies precisely in the fact that so much is NOT shown. Emotions are repressed. Touch is glancing. Yet desire practically oozes off the screen. It is Wong Kar-wai's directorial reticence that creates this palpability, a lesson American directors might learn from if they stopped blasting audiences with heavy breathing and boinking long enough to pay attention. (Yes, I know, Hitchcock understood the power of understatement, but he's obviously long since gone.)
Anyway, if you don't feel heat from this music, then honey, it's time to get your temperature checked.
Free Music Review: Amazing soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
With the declining quality of soundtracks these days where most of the tracks are not even heard in the film but put on there for the sake of having a hit single, this soundtrack was a breath of fresh air because it does an amazing job of what a soundtrack is supposed to do: take you back into the movie as the music drifts through your ears. I can't listen to "Yumeji's Theme" without seeing in my mind the characters slowly passing by each other with longing glances. Every piece of music fits the moment in the movie that they were used in so beautifully from the Chinese opera to Nat King Cole's tracks. This soundtrack is definitely worth owning if you're in the mood for the movie but don't have a DVD player available (like when you're driving in your car).Free Music Review: as gorgeous as the film!
Hit: 5 Stars
Film soundtracks are often disappointing---there are songs from the movie that are not on the CD, songs on the CD that were not in the film, different versions of songs on the CD than in the film, etc.
Happily, this soundtrack is absolutely faithful to the film, and it is masterfully interwoven with dialogue excerpts from the film which complement and build on the music instead of being obtrusive. I don't understand a word of Chinese but still enjoyed listening to the actors' voices, and also liked the bits of traditional Chinese music as well. There are some tracks that I don't remember from the film but they are not throw-away filler in any way, just beautiful extras in the same vein.
Free Music Review: The thought of reviewing it brings tears to my eyes
Hit: 5 Stars
If you have seen the film, I don't know why you're bothering to read these reviews; you already know you can't live without this CD.If you haven't seen the film, this CD is like:
1. Actual heartbreak. The world-without-end sorrow that has value and makes life worth living. This element is also found in good red wines.
2. The third-to-last day before your soulmate comes home from a month long trip and you feel like you're not going to make it that long.
3. A sumptuous buffet of spicy, elegant treats from latin america and the east.
I can't imagine how this CD could disappoint you.
Free Music Review: Beautiful movie and soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
The CD is great. And the film is even better. The movie is very subtle and sensuous from the colors, the gestures and the cinematography. I loved the scene where she walks down that narrow stairway to the noodle shop and how the tango music or waltz just breaks your heart. Also how her landlord comments that she dresses to the hilt just to go down to the noodle shop. Gotta go to see the film. It is my best film pick of the year. It should have been nominated for best foreign film. Would have liked to see it the 2nd time on big screen!