Jo Rempel’s Best of 2023

December 27, 2023 by Moviejawn Account in features, jo rempel

by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
I’ve made the executive decision for this list to be as subjective as possible, with arbitrary rules about what constitutes “a 2023 movie.”

LOVE LIFE is a melodrama with a light touch

August 24, 2023 by Moviejawn Account in jo rempel, reviews

by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
What exactly do you do when the world really does continue turning? Love Life makes such a question feel astonishingly light.

A Girl Missing

July 31, 2020 by Rosalie Leonard in reviews, ian hrabe

Directed by Kôji Fukada
Written by Kôji Fukada & Kazumasa Yonemitsu
Starring Mariko Tsutsui, Mikako Ichikawa, Miyu Ozawa and Sôsuke Ikematsu
Running time: 1 hour and 51 minutes

by Ian Hrabe

There are moments in A Girl Missing where you can see why director Kôji Fukada won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes in 2016 for his film Harmonium. There are two or three sequences that just take your breath away. These scenes show that Fukada knows how to deliver an emotional cinematic punch and yet, despite a few moments of clarity, A Girl Missing is a bit of a mess.