Love Life
By Guillermo Lopez Meza August 10, 2023
Director Koji Fukada offers a unique contribution to the melodrama genre: a film of unusual subtleties.
Director Koji Fukada offers a unique contribution to the melodrama genre: a film of unusual subtleties.
This is Almodóvar in full melodrama mode. His trademark humor is all but absent.
A work of undeniable talent and poignancy, though it is not easy viewing.
Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams turn this adaptation into a contemporary woman’s movie.
Behind the film’s sweeping vistas lies the spirit of a micromanager, an entity that does not trust us with our own emotions and wants to steer us firmly where it thinks they should lie.
Director Lena Yadav has turned first-hand knowledge into an intriguing script that, combined with Russell Carpenter’s (Titanic) rich and varied cinematography, gives voice to women who have little or no say over their own lives.
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