Tag: Davy Chou

  • Past Lives review – a spine-tingling romance of lost chances

    Past Lives review – a spine-tingling romance of lost chances

    Korean-Canadian writer-director Celine Song’s tremendous feature debut tells the poignant tale of childhood sweethearts separated by fate and thousands of milesThis supremely confident feature debut from Korean-Canadian writer-director Celine Song is a spine-tingling gem – a tale of not-so-brief encounters between star-crossed souls, played out over a period of 24 years. Combining the aching yearning…

  • Streaming: Return to Seoul and the best films about homecoming

    Streaming: Return to Seoul and the best films about homecoming

    Davy Chou’s lovely drama about a young woman searching for her past follows in the footsteps of The Deer Hunter, Get Carter, Tiny Furniture and moreEarlier this year I visited my home city of Johannesburg after seven years away, to find – as I do every time I return – everything at once the same…