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Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000, South Korea) Directed by: Hong Sang-Soo

In The Mood For Love (2000, Hong Kong) Dir: Wong Kar-wai

Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung in Cosmopolitan (HK) to promote In The Mood For Love (2000)

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Various Deleted Scenes from In The Mood For Love (2000)

In The Mood For Love (2000)

In The Mood For Love (2000)

Werner Herzog Narrowly avoided existence on the commercial airliner that crashed in the Amazonian Rainforest with only a single survivor (Juliane Koepcke) on December 24, 1971. Herzog was location reconnoitring for Aguirre, Wrath of God and had his reservation cancelled referable overbooking. This incident inspired Herzog cinematography Wings of Hope together using Koepcke.

Herzog: "The Three men cleaned her wounds with gasoline and drove out some of the maggots. They took off in their boat. 11 hours later they reached the first village. As a result of her fall, Juliane's eyes were still so bloodshot that people whom she met on route fled in panic because they thought they had seen a forest demon.

From a small airstrip she was flown out to a missionary hospital. Months later, released from hospital, Juliane's is in an airplane again. As if a tunnel view forwards and backwards in time, she sees herself, left behind in the jungle site of the crash. All around her, there's no one, only the voices of the forest.

Further and further, she moves away from herself, and further and further thoughts reach. An ocean of jungle extends around her, she wants to continue her search, she wants to find all the fragments of the plane and lift them from the ground, and resurrect them. She wants to reassemble the whole thing, but it dawns on her that nothing can be reversed, that nothing can be annulled.

Did she sit behind one of these windows? Was she perhaps hurled into the void through this exit?

Juliane sees herself again during her flight into the void, alone, strapped to her seat, she sails on further and further and further. Around her there is nothing but a yearning abyss, she flies on for weeks, then, it becomes dark.

As it becomes bright again, she sees a way out and a door of deliverance. She walks through the door and all of a sudden beholds an angel engulfed in light. All fear departs from her, while screaming falls silent, she doesn't breath anymore. Overwhelmed by bliss, her heart stands still for an entire minute and she knows that a boat will come, slowly and softly, to carry her away, to rescue her at last".[X]

In The Mood For Love (2000) Maggie Cheung costume design sketch

In The Mood For Love (2000)