“花样年华是指少年男女二十岁左右青春焕发的岁月.”
In The Mood For Love by Wong Kar-wai (2000) takes on a Chinese idiom for the movie title, to which I found it quite thought intriguing. The definition of the phrase 花样年华 is not easy to define, as it represents a very ephemeral concept – mainly used to describe the years in one’s youth, alike to blossoming flowers, pretty, yet not everlasting. For the movie, I would describe it in these four words – fleeting, subtlety, yearning and lasting.
