May 20, 2000 –
Director Wong Kar-Wai’s lush, visually stunning fever dream of a movie, In the Mood for Love (Faa Yeung Nin Wa), starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung premiered at Cannes Film festival, on this date.
Filming took fifteen months, due in part to Kar-Wai Wong’s improvisational and perfectionist nature. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who had been forced to turn down several other projects because of this lengthy production, finally left to honor a prior commitment and was replaced by Ping Bin Lee and Pun-Leung Kwan. Doyle would later do the same thing on 2046, which proved to be his final collaboration with Wong (as of 2022).
The Haus of Dcaligari 