Director – Giddens Ko – 2021 – Taiwan – Cert. 15 – 128m ***1/2 A man ripped from his true love by a fatal lightning strike partners with another dead person as gods of love linking romantic souls together – out in cinemas on Friday, March 11th A young man is struck by lightning in […]
Director – Yoyo Yao Tingting – 2019 – China – Cert. PG – 115m ***1/2 Exclusively in cinemas from Tuesday, August 25th (Chinese Valentine’s Day this year). Hands write in a notebook. In a voice-over, Lin Ge (Lee Hongchi) describes himself as “a man who doesn’t exist… No memories of me in this world.” He […]
Director – Yuhei Sakuragi – 2019 – Japan – 93m *** Teenage romance, parallel worlds and dysfunctional families are the main ingredients of The Relative Worlds, Yuhei Sakuragi’s uneasy cross between a mawkish boy meets girl tale and a sci-fi action picture in the James Cameron mould. The romantic, emotional parts are gentle and almost […]