Love Life

Name: Love Life
Genre: Drama
Released: August 11, 2023
Duration: 124 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Akari Fukunaga, Atom Sunada, Fumino Kimura, Hirona Yamazaki, Kento Nagayama

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Oscilloscope Laboratories | Release Date: August 11, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Akari Fukunaga, Atom Sunada, Fumino Kimura, Hirona Yamazaki, Kento Nagayama, Marika Yamakawa, Misuzu Kanno, Natsume Mito, Tomorowo Taguchi, Win Morisaki

Summary: Taeko and her husband Jiro are living a peaceful existence with her young son Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy’s long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with her pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping Park, who is deaf and currently homeless.

Director: Kôji Fukada

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 124 min

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RogerEbert.com Marya E. Gates

Aug 11, 2023

While there can be an artificiality to monologues, the raw and complex contradictions each character contends with are rooted in emotions that never once ring false, and the actors bring an authenticity that transcends treacle. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Sep 9, 2022

Amongst the stars, Love Life (named for an Akiko Yano song of the same name) is jarringly everyday in color palette and setting, but has just the right amount of scope, filmmaking nous, and unusual choices to hold its own and even stand out. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

Aug 24, 2023

It doesn’t talk down to audiences, instead inviting them to experience something relatable, something that both challenges and provides answers. How refreshing. Read full review

Robert Abele

Aug 28, 2023

Grief is universal, and yet no two stories about it are alike, a distinction that keeps Koji Fukada’s tender drama “Love Life” unpredictable as it mixes the mundane with the inexplicable, and empathy with alienation, to nuanced, if never fully stirring effect. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Sep 17, 2023

It’s a solid, sensitively handled study of the aftermath of a trauma, elevated by tricky, unexpected revelations about Park. Read full review

The Playlist Elena Lazic

Sep 9, 2022

A busy web of interpersonal dynamics, Love Life often feels more concerned about its characters’ storylines and the way they all fit into each other than about what the audience might be getting out of watching it all play out. Read full review

Xuanlin Tham

Sep 11, 2023

Its final act is composed of such undercooked plot developments that its emotional stakes lose all import. Read full review

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