Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
demon_naiem
Watching this made me realize that the art of filmmaking is still alive and well, from having a beautiful "green colored" screen to great acting and bonding between the actors
ottawa_scuba_monkey
This was the worst movie I have seen by far.
Boring, pointless, inane conversation between boring people with generous periods of absolute deafening silence.
This is one of those movies directed to intellectuals that refer to "movies" as "films" and like to use expressions like "paradigm shift" whilst rubbing their chin.
I would have given this a "0" if it was allowed ... what a mess.
Brettmcreynolds
A perfectly brilliant yet understated film about the emotional purgatory before loss. Masterfully shot in a modernist architecture's real-life dreamscape- Columbus, Indiana- this film is the true standout of the year. Following two characters whose lives intertwine around their relationships (or lack thereof) with their parents, the script and story stays on point with a realism not often found in films that attempt tales like these.What you are left with is a genuine journey that finds beauty in the all-to-familiar and the foreign, and a glimmer of love between strangers during life's most difficult situations filmed with a delicate eye. A remarkable achievement in film.
pancholi-kota
Proper art has the quality of 'stasis' - it stills the heart of the viewer into a state of aesthetic arrest The supreme quality of beauty in an art is appreciated by the mind when it is arrested by the wholeness and fascinated by its harmony in the silent stasis of esthetic pleasure.To be aware of such a work of art is a spiritual experience.Joyce's definition of proper art and beauty is apt to describe this film.A Korean man finds himself in Columbus,Indiana to be with his architect father who has suddenly passed into coma.A local girl,an architectural nerd,strikes friendship with him.The man feels duty-bound to stay in town until his father recovers because he has no choice.The girl,who has offers to study and intern outside the town,doesn't want to leave because she is concerned about her mother.Lives are in statis,something's gotta give.The duo discuss their relationships,career and architecture as the girl takes the man around various modernist architectural sites in Columbus.They share cigarettes and advice,and possibly some understanding about life.If the Fountainhead was Beethovan's Symphony #5 on architecture,Columbus is Fur Elise.Both the protagonists are dilettantes of architecture,the girl having taken to it as a means of catharsis,and the guy quite reluctantly as a matter of legacy.The assymetric can still be balanced in buildings,and probably that is the corollary that the director draws for life.This is Kogonada's first directorial venture.Just yesterday I was overwhelmed while watching Bong Joon-ho's OKJA.Chan woo-park and Kim Ki-duk have churned out many such aesthetically pleasing films in their career.Columbus is a film that will stay with me for long.I wonder if I shud call this a coming-of-age drama.This is not even a conventional romance.There is a lot of love ,but this is love for art's sake and more appropriately,art for love's sake.
