2011 · comedy · drama · korean
Sunny
Directed by Kang Hyoung-chul2h 16m2011
Seven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time.
Our read: Sunny (2011) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · korean entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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How Sunny feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want eighties Korean girl-gang nostalgia that makes you ugly-cry with joy.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if schoolyard violence and a two-hour subtitled friendship epic feel heavy.
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