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Review: So Long, See You Tomorrow and Spirit World

Posted on October 31, 2025 by philipbrasor

Baek Seung-bin’s third feature’s literary pretensions go beyond his borrowing the title of William Maxwell’s classic 1979 novel. There’s a gay bar that figures centrally in the plot called Giovanni’s Room, the title of an early James Baldwin novel and … Continue reading →

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Review: La verite

Posted on October 16, 2019 by philipbrasor

Hirokazu Kore-eda is Japan’s master of the middlebrow, and in that regard Shoplifters, the movie that cemented his international cred, is an outlier. Most of what has sustained his career in Japan is what can be safely called domestic potboilers—tales … Continue reading →

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