I Will Make You Mine

Name: I Will Make You Mine
Genre: Drama
Released: May 26, 2020
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Ayako Fujitani, Ayami Riley Tomine, Christy Meyers, Goh Nakamura, Jeff Meacham

2020

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Gravitas Ventures | Release Date (Streaming): May 26, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Ayako Fujitani, Ayami Riley Tomine, Christy Meyers, Goh Nakamura, Jeff Meacham, Joy Osmanski, Lynn Chen, Mike Faiola, Tamlyn Tomita, Yea-Ming Chen

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This semi-sequel to SURROGATE VALENTINE and DAYLIGHT SAVINGS revisits the characters in a stand-alone story with a fresh new perspective.

Summary: Rachel (Lynn Chen) lives in idle luxury with a cheating husband, Professor Erika (Ayako Fujitani) juggles career demands while raising her daughter Sachiko (Ayami Riley Tomine), and struggling musician Yea-Ming (Yea-Ming Chen) is still chasing a fast-fading dream. Three women who could not be more different have one thing in common: theirRachel (Lynn Chen) lives in idle luxury with a cheating husband, Professor Erika (Ayako Fujitani) juggles career demands while raising her daughter Sachiko (Ayami Riley Tomine), and struggling musician Yea-Ming (Yea-Ming Chen) is still chasing a fast-fading dream. Three women who could not be more different have one thing in common: their flawed romantic history with singer-songwriter Goh Nakamura (himself). When the amiable but unreliable Goh ambles back into town and into their lives, the past comes roaring back.… Expand

Director: Lynn Chen

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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Kevin Crust

May 28, 2020

More evolution than sequel, Chen maintains the laidback, low-fi charm and black-and-white aesthetic infused with Nakamura’s dreamy, pensive music but also grows the characters, infusing them with more narrative purpose. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

May 28, 2020

Structured like a half-remembered pop tune and drifting by at a 75 minutes that feels as if it might not even be half that long, I Will Make You Mine is a sweet little bop about trying to find the rhythm of your life when you don’t really know how the song is structured. Find the melody and you’ll be humming it to yourself for days. Read full review

The Film Stage John Fink

May 28, 2020

I Will Make You Mine is a brisk and somewhat scrappy film at times rushing its third act and embracing its small-budget roots. While an abrupt climax leaves messy lives a little too neat and resolved, the film is a fitting and sweet third chapter in the Surrogate Valentine series. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

May 28, 2020

The movie accumulates a rueful nostalgia. Soft black-and-white cinematography (by Bill Otto and Carl Nenzen Loven) and low-key humor help offset the limitations of its partly crowd-funded budget, as does the naturalism of the partly improvised performances Read full review

John DeFore

May 28, 2020

The easygoing drama points its ensemble toward domesticity, watching as each character flirts with nostalgia and questions the wisdom of settled-down relationships. Read full review

Ty Burr

May 27, 2020

A sweet, slight drama of midlife readjustment, I Will Make You Mine is the belated final film in a trilogy about a struggling indie rocker and the three women in his life. The first two movies are “Surrogate Valentine” (2011) and “Daylight Savings” (2012), and they haunt the new film like a phantom limb. Do you need to have seen them to take in I Will Make You Mine? Yes, but that’s OK. Read full review

Bobby LePire

May 28, 2020

The biggest problem with I Will Make You Mine is that the stakes are so low, it is impossible to become entirely invested. Read full review

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