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: Amazingly Beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
If you have seen the unbelievably good movie 'In The Mood For Love' then you know what a great soundtrack it had. The movie is not just dialogue, it is the MUSIC that sets the 'mood'. My favorite track in the entire movie is Yumiji's theme. Oh my, it is so beautiful that it will make you weep. I absolutely adored the movie, and while I cannot watch it everyday, I can definately listen to its soundtrack and feel that I have. This soundtrack sets the mood perfectly and is quite superb. I recommend it immensely.
Free Music Review: Soulful Longing
Hit: 4 Stars
The music in this soundtrack is so fitting for the pace of this beautiful but sad love story told to us at a slow easy going pace. My favorite tract being Yumeji's Theme evokes deep emotions from within. Each time it plays in the movie there is no need for words as every glance, motion and thoughts are made known though left unsaid. In a time when movies only include the latest pop music for the sake of profit making this soundtrack rises above all as one which is fitting for the story it unfolds.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: Unique East-meet-West scores, beautiful in a despairing way
Hit: 4 Stars
The soundtrack is not only magnificient but significant, in the way it suggests the mood and aides in the story-telling. The film itself de-emphasizes almost all externalities including any supporting actors and actresses. Instead the music scores and the lush palette of colors take the important role of telling the stroy, suggesting the possible coming. Not too lengthy for a soundtrack, but the 40 minutes of music fill with a sense of blues, despair, nostalgia, and exoticism. The soundtrack begins with Yumeji's Theme, as a reviewer has previously noted, this piece written by Umebayashi Shigeru was originally used in a Seijun Suzuki film called "Yumeji" barely seen outside of Asia. What makes this soundtrack unique is the audacious juxtaposition of '40s Chinese music with Nat King Cole's portugaese legendaries. Zhou Xuan's "Ha yang de nien hua" brings back memories of the legendary diva who dominated the Shanghai music scenes more than 80 years ago. The piece tags perfectly into the mixed feelings of the characters: fidelity and decency will not allow them to have an affai no matter how intimate their bond has been. Nat King Cole's Quizás, Quizás, Quizás [Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps] is my favorite and it fits perfectly into the yearning mood of the film. "Perhaps he works late just like he tells me." "Perhaps she forgets to call me." "Perhaps we can have an affair" "Perhaps..." The soundtrack closes out with yet another beautifully done piece--Angkor Wat Theme Finale. At first I thought the movie DVD will be sufficient to capture all the scores and music pieces and yet I was mistaken. Only "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" could be heard in full length in movie while almost all the other pieces were cut short and faded out. The tiptoeing movie theme "In the Mood for Love" is available in three cuts. If you like the music from the movie, you have to get this soundtrack. The movie experience will never be complete without the soundtrack. 4.3 stars.Free Music Review: Languid and beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
The opening song is the ultimate mood music for falling in love. The rest of the album is an eclectic mix of the slow-paced and romantic Nat King Cole, with his American-accented Portuguese, and some great '60s Cantonese pop. Get it and love it -- and see the movie.