After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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Contemplative, grave, earnest and intimate.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Cinema_Snobbon TMDB · Jul 202410/10
Celine song directed this wonderful and emotionally complex film about holding on to the past no matter how fleeting it is. Ha Young is a young girl living in Korea. She has a crush on a boy at school named Hae Sung. The time comes when her family is immigrating to Canada. It is devastating to young Hae, who is going to miss his friend. Twelve years go by and Ha is now living in New York City and goes by the name of Nora. One day while browsing the internet she looks up Hae out of curiosity. She contacts him and learns that he has also been looking for her. They talk online for awhile, but Nora worries that the time is being taken away from what she should be doing. They stop communicating. Another twelve years passes and Nora is now married to Arthur, a writer. Hao contracts her out of the blue and says he is coming to New York and wants to see her. The scenes when he arrives are golden. The dialogue and conversation and hidden innuendo are flawlessly displayed. They have so much to say to each other, yet so much is not said. It boils under the uneasy surface. The final moments of the film are devastating, but not in the way you might expect. It leaves a longing and emotional feel
Read the whole review on TMDB - BornKnighton TMDB · Jan 202410/10
An american A24 very adult romance and drama movie that gets in you little by little, slow burning with a gentle flame and involves more than just love, but personal choices and fate too. Compared to a lot of romances this one is very real, and tells the story of two korean child, that lives closely together in their 12yo in sort of a "proto-date" till she emigrate to Canada and then US, already searching better changes at what she planned to do as a job (writing). Jump 12 years later accidentally she discovers that he was looking for her, and they start to chat online together, and the old fire starts to ignite again... till the day she says with a broken heart that because neither of them can see each other too soon and because she need to focus on her work they should to stop talking for a while. A while that passes in another 12 years and she gets on her life in America even marrying another writer aspirant while he gets a girlfriend. Then he decides to come visit her in NYC (that's shown in the very start (2min) of the movie, watch closely for the details in expressions that this tells so much) . A great strat for Celine Song at her debut on the big screen (as director and scr
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Oct 20237/10
"Na Young" (Moon Seung-ah) and her best pal "Hae Sung" (Leem Seung-min) are pretty much joined at the hip at school. They do everything together. That is, until her family decide that they are going to emigrate to Canada. The young lad is a bit bereft, he doesn't really understand and he certainly doesn't approve! Anyway, off they go and after quite an hiatus, she discovers that he had tried to get in touch previously and so she now gets in contact. Now called "Nora" (and played by Greta Lee), she has married "Arthur" (John Magaro) and moved to NYC, but as they continue to chat online they gradually rebuild their friendship so that a visit from Korea to the USA seems the natural next step. What now ensues are a poignantly constructed series of reminiscences that extol the virtues and innocence of their childhoods but also illustrate how different they have become - even while the underlying bedrock of her relationship with him (and, for that matter with her husband) is probably just as solid - though not in quite the same way. There's a bit of pining, a bit of regret - but the film also fairly optimistically looks at where their lives have got to, and also of where their lives have
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Cast
- Greta LeeNora
- Teo YooHae Sung
- John MagaroArthur
- Moon Seung-ahYoung Nora
- Leem Seung-minYoung Hae Sung
- Yoon Ji-hyeNora's Mom
- Choi Won-youngNora's Dad
- An Min-youngHae Sung's Mom
- Seo Yeon-wooYoung Si Young
- Chang Ki-haHae Sung's Friend 1
Crew
- Celine SongDirector
- Celine SongWriter
- Shabier KirchnerDirector of Photography
- Daniel RossenOriginal Music Composer
- Christopher BearOriginal Music Composer
- Keith FraaseEditor
- David HinojosaProducer
- Pamela KofflerProducer
- Christine VachonProducer
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