Love Life
Cert: 12A Year: 2022 Length: 123 mins Language: Japanese and Korean
Synopsis
In a film strangely reminiscent of 'Past Lives', but with a very different feel, 'Love Life' explores Love and Life as past loves come back to haunt the lives of a Japanese couple.
In a wonderful, chaotic family, "The delicate domestic balance shared by Taeko and her second husband, Jiro, is upended when a tragedy strikes the family, in this wrenching Japanese melodrama from Kôji Fukada.
Relations are further strained by the arrival of Taeko's deaf and seemingly vulnerable ex-husband, Park, back into her life. Since Taeko is the only person who can communicate with him – Park speaks Korean sign language – the responsibility for his care falls to her. But the gap between Taeko and Jiro, both physical and emotional, grows ever wider. It's a solid, sensitively handled study of the aftermath of a trauma" - Wendy Ide, Observer. And I haven't even mention Jiro's parents involvement, or his ex-girlfriend Yamazaki...
Critics
An enormously poignant melodrama told at the volume of a broken whisper
David Ehrlich, indieWire
It is a rich, varied meal of a film.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
A beautifully wrought story of life after tragedy.
Lovia Gyarkye Hollywood Reporter
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