Tag Archives: Caregiver

Memory (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): An accidental romance tale between two troubled persons

Posted on January 26, 2025 by kaist455

Micheal Franco’s latest film “Memory” is about an accidental romance between two troubled persons. While both of them have each own issue to struggle with, they cannot help but attracted to each other after their rather unpleasant encounter, and the … Continue reading →

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Greenhouse (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): She has desperate issues…

Posted on August 6, 2023 by kaist455

South Korean film “Greenhouse” is mainly about one deeply troubled woman’s misery and despair – and how she comes to resort to some serious criminal measures because of that. While it is rather typical in terms of story and character, … Continue reading →

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The Prayer (2020) ☆☆☆(3/4): A little robot morality play

Posted on December 11, 2021 by kaist455

South Korean film “The Prayer”, which is actually the theatrical version of one episode of South Korean TV anthology drama series “SF8”, is a simple but thought-provoking SF morality play which examines one familiar but undeniably impossible moral dilemma via … Continue reading →

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Chronic (2015) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : Living through his sick people

Posted on April 23, 2016 by kaist455

It is always interesting to observe human behaviors from movies. “Chronic”, which received the Best Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival in last year, engaged me because of its calm observation of curious human behaviors, but I was also … Continue reading →

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Passion Fish (1992) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Two hardcore women stuck with each other

Posted on August 20, 2012 by kaist455

When I watched “The Intouchables”(2011) at the local movie theater several months ago, I got a small nagging dissatisfaction with that crowd-pleasing film which was about the warm friendship between a disabled man and a caregiver hired by him. The … Continue reading →

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