I had a hard time connecting with the characters emotionally on this film. Some of the story elements felt over the top and in a movie about HIV it could have used more realism.
I liked the twisting, turning path this movie took the viewer on. Probably my favorite LBH role and that includes Mr Sunshine. He seemed more natural here.
I didn't like this movie, but I didn't hate it either. It was interesting and entertaining in a twisted way. I would be very thoughtful about who I recommended it to.
I wanted to like this. I really did... but was ultimately let down in the end. The story was just too messy for…
I'm on board with you. I dropped it awhile back but picked it up for a requirement on the 2020 Challenge. Longest 2 1/2 hours of my drama life. I feel like I lost brain cells on this movie today. The worst thing about it for me was not that it was weird or violent, but that it bored me.
I enjoyed it. It wasn’t great but it was entertaining and heart warming. :) I love ski jumping as terrifying as it is and this movie had some good ski shots.
They never explained why Junichi behaved the way he did. Homeless, never looking for anything. And apparently helpless against a woman’s desire. “I just wanted a cup of tea.” :D
Also, that boy must have been putting out some potent pheromones. Women were helpless in his presence no matter their age.
Mont-Saint-Michel is on my bucket list of places to go. My best friend spent two nights there and loved it, especially after the tourists left for the day. Lucky woman. For now I lived vicariously through this travel drama. Wonderful shots of various places in France to visit.
Oh, and there was also the drama part. The only caveat I have is that it needed a short epilogue for me. The ending was left a few things dangling, other than that I really enjoyed this drama. The characters evolved as well as their relationships. This drama was right up my alley. I would have no regrets recommending it. :)
The story was convoluted and there was gratuitous violence galore. The best parts of the movie were the well choreographed fight scenes. And it was nice that quite a bit of English was spoken for my tired brain late at night. :)
Bruce Lee was beautiful and lightning fast as always. The story never really matters to me. I like to watch him for his moves even though I know that some of the kicks were not his style. He was always entertaining.
This is all I could find on the writer, whose life this is loosely based upon. It would make an interesting second movie to see her life in Paris with her new parents and also to see how her meeting went with the father that abandoned her.
Biography Born in Seoul in 1966, Ounie LECOMTE left Korea for France at the age of 9 when a Protestant family adopted her. Her adoptive father was a minister. After studying dress design, she worked on a number of films: as an actress with Olivier ASSAYAS ("Paris s’éveille") or as a wardrobe mistress, notably for Sophie Fillières. In 1991, she returned to Korea to play the part of an abandoned girl looking for her roots there. The film was never made, but reality caught up with fiction and she was re- united with her biological family. In 2006, she enrolled at the Fémis Screenwriting Workshop run by Eve Deboise where she wrote "A Brand New Life".
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Also, that boy must have been putting out some potent pheromones. Women were helpless in his presence no matter their age.
Oh, and there was also the drama part. The only caveat I have is that it needed a short epilogue for me. The ending was left a few things dangling, other than that I really enjoyed this drama. The characters evolved as well as their relationships. This drama was right up my alley. I would have no regrets recommending it. :)
Biography
Born in Seoul in 1966, Ounie LECOMTE left Korea for France at the age of 9 when a Protestant family adopted her. Her adoptive father was a minister. After studying dress design, she worked on a number of films: as an actress with Olivier ASSAYAS ("Paris s’éveille") or as a wardrobe mistress, notably for Sophie Fillières. In 1991, she returned to Korea to play the part of an abandoned girl looking for her roots there. The film was never made, but reality caught up with fiction and she was re- united with her biological family. In 2006, she enrolled at the Fémis Screenwriting Workshop run by Eve Deboise where she wrote "A Brand New Life".