Two Seasons, Two Strangers

breaks my heart cause All the Long Nights is one of my favorite films of the 2020s but I've got nothing on this one. was thinking and thinking but it rushed by like a express train without leaving a mark. something about alienation and loneliness (themes usually up my…

shookone

Sho Miyake is one of those directors who suddenly stands there, almost unnoticed, and with a quiet hand carries the most beautiful light into the dark. A Japanese filmmaker whose last two films were among the understated highlights of the Berlinale. All the Long Nights and…

Patrick W

An extreme case where the movie within the movie is better than the actual movie. So enamored with the sound design during those passages. And then once it pulls back into the real world it becomes more tedious, less sensuous, aiming for a sort of quietude-as-profundity…

Joshua Minsoo Kim

“ não importa o que eu faça, nada parece dar certo, nunca conheci ninguém mais azarado do que eu “ É muito especial a forma como Sho Miyake utiliza a sutileza das conexões em seus filmes para abordar as nuances de um vínculo emocional, apesar desse tema ser bastante…

DamRibeiro

— ❥ : ❝I feel alive again.❞ — ❥ :  ❝ I wish this feeling would last forever.❞ ︵ 𐔌. A film told in two parts ꪆ ⁀➷ : ᯓ★⏱ : The first part is a story written by the main character, Lee, a screenwriter. It follows two strangers who meet by the seaside during the summer. ᯓ★⏱ :…

・❥ Sara ˚.⋆ֹ

So touching. So humane. Even in the snowy landscapes of a Japanese village, this is one of the warmest movies I've watched in recent memory. The way it captures the longing for human interactions and for stories to be told and heard is just immensely beautiful, and the…

Anastasia ✄

在大銀幕看完那一刻，確實難以啟齒。不是因為它晦澀，而是因為它把語言先行撤離，讓觀眾在一個看似「沒有故事」的框架裡，慢慢摸到意義如何自行展開。三宅唱再次把「解釋」讓位給「經驗」，以觀察取代推進、以聆聽取代論證；所謂「無故事」並非空白，而是一種節制與倫理：讓影像與聲音先說話，讓人與世界的摩擦先出現，開場的都市景觀像是一道啟示，密集樓群之間，一面藍得近乎不自然，維修大樓外的藍色外牆，人物衣著的藍與遠處海面的亮度，與建築的藍形成三條相互呼應的脈線，只要我們意識到色彩在現場自行成立，畫面裡每一次「偶然的藍」都是想像力的回響，牽引視線。比起以往，這部作品更…

Ar Nam Ho 何阿嵐

Drama with some humor — just like the innkeeper likes it. A very almost deceptively quiet, lowkey movie that had me in awe and wonder — a film that puts on full display Sho Miyake’s incredible patience, audacity, intent, and eye for beauty. The Q&A only confirmed his…

KYK

El cine de Sho Miyake es bastante interesante, aunque peculiar: sus películas presentan conflictos dramáticos claros pero la narración como que rompe el hilo; decir, que lo que podría ser una progresión clara aquí no responde a la lógica que podrían ser sus bloques, sino…

Alejandro Nava