Cinema Dissection: In the Mood For Love

February 15, 2025

Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a slow-burn romance that explores the complexities of love, loneliness, and longing against the backdrop of 1960’s Hong Kong. This visually stunning cinematic poem, full of abstract cinematography and aching performances from Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, is considered one of the seminal films of the 2000s.

In this Cinema Dissection, facilitator and local filmmaker Jeremy Cropf will lead participants through a meticulous shot-by-shot analysis of In the Mood for Love, examining how Wong Kar Wai masterfully employs lighting, framing, and movement to create an all-encompassing sense of longing. The film’s haunting score, its non-linear narrative structure, and its profound exploration of repressed desire will be explored in depth as we deconstruct this cinematic masterpiece.

Tickets on sale Wednesday, February 5.

CLASS SPECIFICS
Saturday, February 15, 2025
10:00am–4:00pm PT
SIFF Film Center
$30 Sustainer | $25 Regular | $20 Member

ABOUT CINEMA DISSECTION
Cinema Dissection affords film lovers an exciting opportunity to dig deeper into the films that they love. Inspired by Roger Ebert's annual Cinema Interruptus in Boulder, CO, attendees will participate with a facilitator in a six-hour scene-by-scene, and sometimes shot-by-shot, deconstruction of the featured film. While the facilitator will certainly share their thoughts, anyone in the audience may call out "Stop" and either ask a question of the group or make an observation around a certain shot or moment in the film.

Jeremy Cropf

About the Instructor: Jeremy Cropf

Jeremy Cropf is a filmmaker and television producer, currently working at Cascade Public Media. A six-time regional Emmy®-award winning producer, Jeremy earned a BA in Film and Television production at NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated with honors (’11). In 2009 Jeremy studied advanced television production with the BBC Academy in London, attached as an associate producer for the BAFTA-winning BBC Two factual series The Virtual Revolution. He has produced and directed numerous films, documentaries, and commercials.