-
Recent Posts
- Flowers of Shanghai (1998) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Distant but exquisite anyway
- Good Morning (1959) ☆☆☆1/2 (3.5/4): They want a TV…
- Wuthering Heights (2026) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): A cheeky but ultimately hollow adaptation
- Humint (2026) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): A slick but bland genre product
- Marty Supreme (2025) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Timothée Supreme
- Hamnet (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): Shakespeare in Grief
- Song Sung Blue (2025) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): The story of a singing couple
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): The end of an ambitious trilogy
- Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): A little but defiant personal chronicle from Karabash, Russia
- The King’s Warden (2026) ☆☆(2/4): A king comes to his village…
Blogroll
Interesting Windows
Movies
Categories
Meta
Archives
My Photos
-
Join 837 other subscribers
Blog Stats
- 1,224,233 hits
Seongyong’s Twitter
Tweets by kaist455
Daily Archives: February 15, 2026
Flowers of Shanghai (1998) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Distant but exquisite anyway
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 1998 film “Flowers of Shanghai”, which was released in South Korean theaters in last week, often requires some patience from you for good reasons. As your average arthouse movie, it is slow, distant, and opaque in terms of … Continue reading
Seongyong's Private Place 