In his native Hong Kong  Wong Kar-Wai built a reputation as a master of mood  spinning gorgeous stories of desire and yearning His 1994 film Chungking Express  a pop-culture love story scored with The Mamas And The Papas’ “California Dreaming”  melted Quentin Tarantino’s heart enough for him to release it in the US  but it was with the intoxicating In The Mood For Love (2000)  about a middle class couple conducting a chaste affair in the 60s  that he created his grown-up  romantic masterpiece