In The Mood For Love - Original Soundtrack

A curious mix of styles and stylings, loosely connected by two threads - the film which it soundtracks, and the air of nostalgia hanging over the whole. Like the film, it's sort of kitschy, though in a good way (sometimes I wonder if I'd even recognise 'bad' kitsch any more, so wrapped up am I in my world of happily depthless pomo simulacra...maybe the point is that there's no longer such a thing as 'bad' kitsch)...and in some indefinable sense it's also very 'soundtracky'. It doesn't really engage me to the extent that some soundtracks do, though, possibly because it feels like a series of ephemeral, allusively-related snippets of music rather than a coherent whole.