Tag Archives: Romance

Sayonara, Girls. (2022) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): Before their graduation

Posted on February 12, 2024 by kaist455

Japanese film “Sayonara, Girls”, which is released as “Girls Don’t Graduate” in South Korea as it was in Japan a few months ago, is so gentle and vanilla that I quickly lost my patience during my viewing. Probably because I … Continue reading →

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Of an Age (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): Of a Romance

Posted on February 7, 2024 by kaist455

Australian film “Of an Age” works best whenever its two main characters dance around their mutual attraction. While both of them become more aware of their developing feelings along the story, they hesitate to step forward for each own reason, … Continue reading →

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Fallen Leaves (2023) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A deadpan romantic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki

Posted on December 22, 2023 by kaist455

Aki Kaurismäki’s latest work “Fallen Leaves”, which was chosen as the Finnish entry for Best International Film Oscar in this year and then was recently included in the shortlist, is a seemingly bleak but ultimately heartwarming romantic comedy to remember. … Continue reading →

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Strange Way of Life (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): A little western tale by Pedro Almodóvar

Posted on December 19, 2023 by kaist455

Pedro Almodóvar’s short film “Strange Way of Life”, which is incidentally his second English-language work after his previous short film “The Human Voice” (2020), is a little gay western as colorful and melodramatic as you can expect from its genre … Continue reading →

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Joyland (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): A queer drama from Pakistan

Posted on December 17, 2023 by kaist455

Pakistani film “Joyland”, which was selected as the Pakistani submission to Best International Film Oscar in last year (It was subsequently included in the shortlist, by the way), is a sensitive mix between family drama and queer story. Although the … Continue reading →

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Bottoms (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Figthting Girls

Posted on December 6, 2023 by kaist455

Emma Seligman’s second feature film “Bottoms” is decidedly outrageous for laughs, and I enjoyed that. As a high school comedy movie, it is often blatantly artificial in terms of mood and details, but it literally does not pull any punch … Continue reading →

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Single in Seoul (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Publishing and Romancing

Posted on December 3, 2023 by kaist455

South Korean film “Single in Seoul” is a romantic comedy which turns out to be more distinctive and intelligent than expected. Right from when its Meet Cute moment, you can clearly see through where it is going along with its … Continue reading →

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): How he came to rise

Posted on November 21, 2023 by kaist455

“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” is totally unnecessary but fairly watchable at least. As a redundant prequel to The Hunger Games trilogy in the early 2010s, it will not give you much substance in terms of … Continue reading →

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Fingernails (2023) ☆☆(2/4): Can true love be measured?

Posted on November 7, 2023 by kaist455

“Fingernails”, which was released on Apple TV+ on last Friday, starts with an intriguing story promise. What if being truly in love can be actually measured? What if the result of such a measurement is different form what one is … Continue reading →

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The Dream Songs (2022) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Two girls on one day

Posted on October 29, 2023 by kaist455

The emotional power of South Korean film “The Dream Songs” mainly depends on how much you know about a certain disastrous incident which shook the whole South Korean society on April 16th, 2014. I think the story itself will still … Continue reading →

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