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Diogo Serafim3.5

The sea and the sky may look a lot like each other, but they are not the same. What she dreamt of and what she got. Asako tilts toward the unattainable, the eternal which will always return, but finds herself in the end reconciling with the mundane, with someone who has feelings like her, who see the dirtiness in the river too, a man from her world, who can see her beauty. It will never be the same, but it's all she can get. Fairytale deconstructed.

KYK4.5

i’ve heard the complaints (some just straight up nonsensical) but i think the biggest one is re asako’s character development — how she feels like a shell of a human in a movie full of meatier characters. i disagree! and second time around, i felt so achingly for her and, in a sense, like her, even behind the seemingly blank expressions. killed me when she said “even at a time like this, i can only think about myself.”

Filipe Furtado4.0

Love is the cruelest thing. Sort of Rohmer’s A Tale of Winter in a world touched by capital instead of God. So many good details, so much emotional strain spread throughout. Jitan is a great cat and got to star in the best most honest shot of a cat in all movies.