2017 · drama · romance · music
Lovesong
Directed by So Yong Kim1h 25m2017
Neglected by her husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend, Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies before circumstances force them apart. Years later, Sarah attempts to rebuild their intimate connection in the days before Mindy’s wedding.
Our read: Lovesong (2017) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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