Tag Archives: Poet

The Color of Pomegranates (1969) ☆☆☆(3/4): The life of an Armenian poet

Posted on December 1, 2025 by kaist455

In my humble opinion, a good movie can reach to your heart and mind, no matter how vague and elusive it is in what and how it is about. In case of Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 film “The Color of Pomegranates”, … Continue reading →

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Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): After a terminal diagnosis

Posted on November 16, 2025 by kaist455

Documentary film “Come See Me in the Good Light”, which was released on Apple TV+ a few days ago, is about one loving couple coping with the impending end of their long relationship due to a terminal illness. As following … Continue reading →

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You Burn Me (2024) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): On desire and life

Posted on September 21, 2025 by kaist455

Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro’s latest film “You Burn Me” often baffled and confounded me for good reasons. Probably because I do not have much background knowledge on the main subjects of this experimental film, I simply observed the repeated images … Continue reading →

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What Does That Nature Say to You (2025) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): With her girlfriend’s family

Posted on May 18, 2025 by kaist455

Hong Sang-soo’s new film “What Does That Nature Say to You” has usual stuffs we can expect from him, but it somehow did not engage me much on the whole. While it gets some laugh from how petty its hero … Continue reading →

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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): The First Days of the End

Posted on June 29, 2024 by kaist455

“A Quiet Place: Day One” is inherently redundant, but it is mostly competent enough to hold our attention at least. As the prequel to John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place” (2018) and the following 2020 sequel, it does not have anything … Continue reading →

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In Our Day (2023) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): The 30th film by Hong Sang-soo

Posted on October 23, 2023 by kaist455

The most memorable thing in Hong Sang-soo’s 30th feature film “In Our Day” is one fluffy (and plumpy) cat, which always steals the show whenever it appears on the screen. Probably because the movie is relatively less interesting than Hong’s … Continue reading →

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Benediction (2021) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): The final film by Terence Davies

Posted on October 10, 2023 by kaist455

“Benediction”, which is now the last film by Terence Davies after he died a few days ago, is a melancholic collection of personal memories from a real-life British poet who had a fair share of bitter anger and sadness as … Continue reading →

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Midsummer Madness (2020) ☆☆☆(3/4): One summer day of a struggling poet

Posted on August 15, 2021 by kaist455

South Korean independent film “Midsummer Madness” follows one struggling artistic process to observe and reflect on. While its young heroine wanders around here and there for getting any possible inspiration for her, the movie calmly doles out one amusing moment … Continue reading →

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Endless Poetry (2016) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): The wild second chapter of Jodorowsky’s life

Posted on October 30, 2020 by kaist455

“Endless Poetry”, which is supposedly the second part of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s film autobiography, is as wild, bold, and weird as you can expect from his work. Like his previous film “The Dance of Reality” (2013), the movie freely mixes his … Continue reading →

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To My River (2018) ☆☆☆(3/4): The daily life of a poet

Posted on April 14, 2019 by kaist455

South Korean independent film “To My River” grows on me more as I reflect on it more. As a dry but sensitive character drama about life and poetry, it requires some patience from time to time, but it gradually comes … Continue reading →

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