Tag Archives: Marriage

Private Life (2018) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A funny, sensitive human comedy about infertility

Posted on October 6, 2018 by kaist455

“Private Life”, which was released on Netflix this Friday, is alternatively amusing and touching in its intimate and humorous depiction of an ordinary couple struggling with their infertility problem for a long time. While generating lots of small good laughs … Continue reading →

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Concussion (2013) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Deviation with coffee, talk, and sex

Posted on June 27, 2014 by kaist455

 It has been a good life for her and her family, but now she finds herself getting suffocated by her daily life. As she feels her discontent growing inside her day by day, she decides to try something different, and … Continue reading →

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Le Week-End (2013) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A couple’s imperfect weekend in Paris

Posted on April 30, 2014 by kaist455

 They are not young anymore, and they have problems to deal with. As following their rather imperfect weekend, “Le Week-End” initially draws our attention with those lovely sights of Paris and then gradually reveals an honest picture of two aging … Continue reading →

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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : ….and her therapy will end.

Posted on April 20, 2014 by kaist455

 Now we arrive at “Nymphomaniac: Vol. II”, the second part of Lars von Trier’s another challenging work to talk and discuss about. As its exhausted heroine warned us previously, this is a darker territory compared to its first part which … Continue reading →

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Amour (2012) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Scenes from their dying marriage

Posted on December 7, 2012 by kaist455

 Our life is bound to be sad and depressing because of aging and subsequent death, and Michael Haneke’s new movie “Amour” shows that undeniable truth to us through an unsentimental but deeply harrowing observation of an aging couple who begin … Continue reading →

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Blue Valentine (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : It was love, but…

Posted on May 4, 2012 by kaist455

Was really it love? The couple in “Blue Valentine” probably asks that question many times to themselves while struggling to deal with the problem between them. Yes, it was love indeed, but the reality requires a lot more than love … Continue reading →

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Barney’s Version (2010) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Ups and downs in his life

Posted on January 1, 2012 by kaist455

 Our life is filled with our mistakes and following regrets. Even though I live only for around 29 years, I look back at my 11-year-life at the campus and always feel regretful about several feel-bad moments in my past. It … Continue reading →

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Under the Volcano (1984) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : One Alcoholic Day

Posted on November 2, 2010 by kaist455

 Spending almost two hours with the relentlessly drunk character is not a pleasant thing at all, and it is also not easy to watch the man who chooses to abandon himself to his own hell. He is almost near at … Continue reading →

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The Kids Are All Right (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Everybody all right?

Posted on September 5, 2010 by kaist455

“The Kids Are All Right” is quite conventional inside in contrast to what it seems on the surface. We see a unconventional family at the beginning, but we begin to see the dynamics within this family is not so different from the one within conventional families. The family has problems familiar to us, the drama of conflicts and hurts is unfolded in a way we expected, and, in the end, everyone is almost all right as we have seen in many family dramas. However, the movie is more than that. It is not just conventionally unconventional; it is also emotionally honest story with lots of heart.
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