Taste of Cherry

This feels like _Locke_ if it was written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Truly a beautiful, poetic film that despite its heavy subject matter isn’t as downbeat as you might expect. There are moments of wonder in this that would come across as cheesy or disingenuous in a Hollywood film, however here it feels so emotionally real. It’s very thought provoking, focussing on humanism and philosophy as the core of the story, meditative would probably be a good way of describing it. It has some really pretty cinematography (though the camerawork inside the car gets stale, which is probably my biggest complaint) and all of the acting feels understated and completely natural. The ending makes the right choice for the story, but I think that it could’ve been presented in a more natural way. I think I get what it’s going for, but stylistically it feels off to me. 8/10

Another ‘masterpiece’ that is basically average. I mean it’s ok but there’s nothing that stands out here. The idea is ok but isn’t done particularly well. The visuals are basic and basically just pointing the camera at people talking with seemingly no concern for aesthetics. Pretty sure that if all the people who say this is so good just stumbled across it on TV one afternoon without knowing anything about it, they’d say it was completely bland. Can’t go above 5/10