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In the Mood for Love

★★★★★  film

In the Mood for Love

Two neighbours discover that their spouses are conducting an affair, and proceed to fall in love while refusing, with an almost unbearable restraint, to become the very thing that betrayed them. Nothing happens. Everything happens. The most romantic film ever made concerns itself entirely with the thing they did not do.

what it left me with

Some of the profoundest love of your life will be reserved for the version of a thing you chose not to ruin. The ache is the proof that it was real.

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