Outdoor Cinema: Valentine's Day
This Valentine’s Day, enjoy a romantic double bill of critically acclaimed and cult-comedy romance, on the Big Screen.
Bring a picnic blanket and your beau or bestie for a night of love-themed outdoor cinema (and two top, top films).
All films will have burnt-in closed captions.
This event is presented as part of Open Air at the Square.
7pm
Set in the gritty urban glamour of 1962 Hong Kong and written, directed and produced by Wong Kar-Wai, In the Mood for Love is a critically acclaimed, stylistically lush, heart-tugging romance that follows the intertwined relationship of apartment-dwelling neighbours Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung). When they discover their respective spouses are having affairs, the pair start to spend more time together – growing closer while striving to maintain a platonic relationship.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai | 2000 | 98 mins | Hong Kong + France | Language: Cantonese + Shanghainese | Classification: G. The content is very mild in impact
after In The Mood For Love
This critically acclaimed ensemble comedy stars Steve Carrell as Cal – a middle-aged man whose life unravels after his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) reveals she’s been having an affair, and she wants a divorce. Left adrift after his best friend’s wife sides with Emily, Cal meets Jacob (Ryan Gosling) at a bar, who offers to teach him how to pick up women – setting in motion a chain of interconnected events that force Cal, Jacob and Emily to each face their feelings about love, relationships, sex – and what true love is all about.
Dir. Glenn Ficarra and Jehn Requa | 2011 | 98 mins | USA | English | Classification: M. Sexual references and infrequent coarse language