2021 · romance · coming-of-age · music
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Directed by Kyohei Ishiguro1h 28m2021
After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.
Our read: Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive romance · coming-of-age · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle romance / coming-of-age, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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