Tag Archives: Romance

What’s Love Got to Do with It? (2022) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): So it goes like that

Posted on March 21, 2024 by kaist455

“What’s Love Got to Do with It”, which is incidentally not associated with the 1993 Tina Turner biopic, is as predictable as your typical romantic comedy. Right from when its two lead characters appear together at the beginning of the … Continue reading →

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Okiku and the World (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): A Japanese period drama with lots of sh*t

Posted on March 10, 2024 by kaist455

Japanese film “Okiku and the World” may amuse you to some degree if you are not that squeamish about its smelly main story subject. I must warn you that the movie often pays a lot of attention to a dirty … Continue reading →

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All of Us Strangers (2023) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A personal ghost story

Posted on February 23, 2024 by kaist455

Andrew Haigh’s latest film “All of Us Strangers” is a gentle and intimate personal ghost story about loss, grief, loneliness, and love. Starting with a supernatural story premise, the movie gradually delves into the troubled state of mind of its … Continue reading →

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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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