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Daily Archives: March 31, 2014
Elegant Lies (2014) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Tears within its cool restraint
South Korean film “Elegant Lies” has a fair share of tears to shed inside its story, but it holds them with admirable restraint while rarely resorting to cheap melodrama overflowing with tears. This is a sad story about how … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienation, Mother and daughter, School, Sisters, South Korean Film, Suicide
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