Set in Hong Kong, Singapore and Cambodia in the 1960s, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000) is a film that luxuriates in the feeling of being in love without ever turning into a love story. Its central characters, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, are tenants in next-door apartments in Hong Kong who discover that their respective spouses are having an affair. Both of them have promiscuous colleagues at