Tag Archives: Family

A Brighter Summer Day (1991) ☆☆☆☆(4/4): A great movie never too long

Posted on December 24, 2017 by kaist455

Edward Yang’s “A Bright Summer Day”, which recently happened to be released in South Korea, is a singular masterpiece to be admired for numerous reasons. On one level, it is a tragic adolescent drama inspired by a notorious real-life incident … Continue reading →

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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A small decent bank under crisis

Posted on December 10, 2017 by kaist455

As watching documentary film “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”, I could not help but roll my eyes at the absurd legal injustice shown in the documentary. Here is a small decent bank which has provided a considerable financial help to … Continue reading →

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My Happy Family (2017) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): When she walks away from her family

Posted on December 4, 2017 by kaist455

Georgian film “My Happy Family”, which is currently available on Netflix, is a small unexpected surprise which amused and touched me a lot. On one level, it is an intimate female drama about a woman who tries to reach for … Continue reading →

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The Sweet Hereafter (1997) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A cold but harrowing tale of loss and grief

Posted on November 26, 2017 by kaist455

There is one haunting monologue scene in Atom Egoyan’s “The Sweet Hereafter”, one of the saddest films I have ever seen. One of its main characters recollects one eventful summer day he experienced a long time ago, and he vividly … Continue reading →

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Mudbound (2017) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A tale of two families in Mississippi

Posted on November 20, 2017 by kaist455

Filled with so much of the sense of life and location, “Mudbound”, which is currently available on Netflix while getting a limited theatrical release in US, makes a vivid, powerful impression on us. Right from its very first scene, it … Continue reading →

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1922 (2017) ☆☆(2/4): The year when he killed his wife

Posted on October 29, 2017 by kaist455

Since the considerable success of “Carrie” (1976), many of Stephen King’s novels and short stories were adapted into movies during last 41 years, but 2017 is quite an interesting year because we have no less than four feature films based … Continue reading →

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It Comes at Night (2017) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Fear eats their soul…

Posted on October 21, 2017 by kaist455

While firmly and intensely sticking to its minimalistic setting, “It Comes at Night” works as a terrifying psychological horror film. As its few characters struggle with fears and uncertainties in their gloomy circumstance, the movie pushes them further to its … Continue reading →

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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017) ☆☆☆(3/4): Life with their father

Posted on October 17, 2017 by kaist455

“The Meyerowtiz Stories (New and Selected)” is as amusing as its whimsical title suggests. As dryly depicting the rocky relationship dynamics among the members of one dysfunctional family, the movie entertains us with small humorous moments generated among them, and … Continue reading →

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First They Killed My Father (2017) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A girl in the Cambodian Genocide

Posted on September 30, 2017 by kaist455

“First They Killed My Father”, which is currently available on Netflix, is a dark, harrowing tale of survival filled with quiet but powerful moments of horror and sadness. Based on the memoir of the same name by Loung Ung, the … Continue reading →

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Strong Island (2017) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Remembering his brother – and how he was killed

Posted on September 25, 2017 by kaist455

Calmly examining one case of senseless killing and the resulting anger and grief, documentary film “Strong Island”, which is currently available on Netflix, makes its intention very clear to us right from the beginning. It wants us to see how … Continue reading →

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