S.W.’s Scores
Continuity
+5
Entertainment
+4
Rewatchability
+4
CastTony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu
StreamingCriterion Channel, Prime Video (rent)
S.W.’s Verdict
Two people discover their spouses are having an affair with each other. They don't act on their own attraction. That's it. Wong Kar-wai turns restraint into the most romantic gesture imaginable. Every frame looks like a painting you'd stare at in a museum and feel something you can't name. The entertainment is slow and cumulative — it seeps in rather than hits. You rewatch it when you want to feel longing without resolution.