Lovesong (2017)

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Best movie ever!

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I haven't seen any of So Young Kim's other movies, but I am going to make an effort. I understand the varied responses of others here, and make no excuses; it is different for me, and this love story really is a Lovesong, one played in the background over several years, which rises from piano to sforzando, and back to quietness. Remarkably acted and directed, Riley Keough and Jena Malone are just perfect in the depiction of their barely suppressed love for one another. The film both delighted and depressed me, but it has become one that I will buy to keep. I do agree with a review of Lovesong by Justin Chang in "Variety" on 25 Jan 2016: "There's a remarkable truthfulness to the film's acknowledgment that people often make enormous decisions rooted not in fear so much as uncertainty, even laziness, as well as a comfort with their lives as they've lived them until the present juncture." What is left unsaid is the consequences of those decisions, that we are left to look out the window and consider. Well done.

Cons: ANOTHER INDIE LESBIAN MOVIE THAT ENDS THE WRONG WAY.. I would have rather seen them having a relationship and then breaking it up for a different reason. I felt like it was an okay movie, with some good jokes, and it deserved some other turning points. Pros: The photography is great. The beginning has some very tender images featuring nature and a very nice mom/daughter relationship... The performances are quite good!

It's not an exciting movie. It moves very slowly but it's only about an hour and 20 minutes long. There's no big payoff. But the writing, directing and acting are superb. It feels like you're watching a documentary. I wonder if most of the dialogue was ad libbed because it feels so natural. Riley Keough (as she did in "The Girlfriend Experience") has an incredible ability to convey all of her character's feelings without saying a word. There are many scenes when the camera focuses on her eyes, body language, wrinkle of her mouth, tone of her voice, body movements and expressions which move the scene along better than any dialogue could ever do.Jena Malone is also very good but despite her top billing, this is clearly Keough's movie. The movie will disappoint those who want action or suspense or a tidy ending. But for people who appreciate superb acting, writing and directing, the film is rewarding and Riley Keough is amazing.

Two vapid and thin leads with barely a shred of an adult conversation between them. Natural visual and editorial style aside, over the few years this story takes place, there's nothing here that teenage friends wouldn't exchange in half a lunchtime. Young teens at that.The lead character whines about having to look after her own child while being in the privileged position of not having to work. Sarah could take up study or indeed get a job and put her shockingly fed daughter into daycare, where hopefully the child receives some decent parenting. And one wholesome meal. Rather than take any sort of ownership over her life, Sarah bleats and cries. Victim-hood mentality. Woe is me. The actors do a competent job. Rosanna Arquette shamefully wasted here too. It's really the fault of the director, writers and producers.Superficial, whiny, self-involved, navel gazing, entitled, immature characters, without any redeeming qualities other than they look good. Perhaps we should be thankful they didn't talk more as they had nothing worthwhile to say anyway. Too long, even at eighty minutes. Tedious.