Synopsis
The words that made my heart beat again, "To Yunhee, how are you?"
The arrival of an intimate letter prompts a young woman to bring her mother on vacation to a small Japanese town, where someone special resides.
Moonlit Winter
2019 ‘윤희에게’ Directed by Lim Dae-hyung
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Alternative Titles
만월, Inverno al chiaro di luna, Yoon-hee-e-ge, Full Moon, Yunhui-ege
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Sometimes I feel like LGBTQ movies are often super tragic, depressing, or heavily sexualized, but... surprise surprise! Moonlit Winter is like a cup of warm milk on a chilly morning. A great heartfelt story that was told in a very simple and honest way. It will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy at the end. I also live for the sweet mother-daughter bonding! 💙🤍
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the heavy snowfall in Moonlit Winter piles up along the driveway and the streets and is laboriously shovelled and cleared out the next day only to pile up again. an allusion to feelings tucked in so long ago that ebbs and flows whenever the switch of memories is flicked on and off.
where there is vulnerability in communication through undelivered letters, words muttered in the air without a response, phrases written on paper without a reader, longing gushes ragingly amidst its suppression through silence. the years stifle, the rare times when reminiscence is allowed capture. longing becomes impulsive. so how do you ever find something that’s been lost? how do you ever find yourself?
a subdued story of separated lovers…
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i am in shambles, this means everything to me.
this is the only movie ever.
jun. i thought the rest of my life was a punishment. i have been punishing myself all along. you wrote that you were not ashamed of yourself. i wish i wouldn’t feel ashamed of myself anymore.
you’re right. we didn’t do anything wrong.ps: i dream about you too.*
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"Are you going to marry someday?"
Jun: *head aches*Women and their age do not equate to marriage. Let everyone make their own decisions.
And have I said that I dream of you is the new I love you? There, I said it.
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From the get-go, this film is a class act. The cinematography is crystal clear, and the beauty of the snow is highlighted by high contrast as it falls gracefully throughout. The adolescent daughter who is curious about her mother's past and what's behind those private and lonely eyes couldn't be more respectful or supportive. She even has a genuine and healthy relationship with her boyfriend, who also shows nothing but respect. The LGBT story is about the pain and suffering of living an inauthentic and unfulfilled life and not exploited as a pat on the back for the director. And yet there is hope that even in middle age, LGBT individuals can find freedom, self-acceptance and maybe even happiness again.…
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Winter. Everything is frozen into a perfect stance of rehearsed composure. Not a sound outside. The landscape will stay still for the next three months. Everything white, the colors have been buried under the cancelling snow. Long past are the days where everything was moving, when sounds and excitement filled the air that now, unwelcomed, creeps from the drafts. Summer feels like someone else's memory, an alien experience, lost forever. Then, a memory hits harder than the others, bringing a warm feeling into the coldness. Make it last longer, this feeling. Make it seem real. Bring back that summer energy, when everything was possible and nothing could go wrong.
Adulthood hits like winter. It takes everything beautiful and tears it…
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Photography carries an embalming quality in which the created images capture objects or people at specific moments of the past, saving them from the ravages of time. They preserve not only the essence of the photographed items but also the reality surrounding their creation. But to evoke the sentiments of these images and their history requires involvement in their picture-taking. Any form of participation, behind or in front of the camera, would enable those to recall the photographed memories. Of course, this would be an impossibility for many unless the participants decide to share these stories for others to share further.
In Lim Dae-hyung's Moonlit Winter, Sae-bom (Kim So-hye) - an amateur photographer with a remarkable level of adolescent curiosity…
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400 winters. Supportive daughter. The unsent letters. Loved. Longing. Fulfilling storytelling. Perfectly restrained. Words sometimes don't speak nor confess here. The engrossing deliberate formalism gives this comforting weight, making it instantly rewatchable. The postscript that brings this all together. I don't know if my words can do this film justice, but hopefully I did my best. Someone out there dreams of you too.
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cozy, low-key, and familiar and yet i've never seen anything quite like it. melted my frozen heart. <3
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“Jun, I thought the rest of my life was a punishment. I've been punishing myself all along. You wrote that you weren't ashamed of yourself. I wish I wouldn’t feel ashamed of myself anymore. You're right. We didn't do anything wrong. P.S. I dream about you too.”
As I was scrolling through the reviews of this film, I couldn't agree more when they said that this is equivalent to a warm cup of tea in the morning. Soothing, cozy, subtle, very low-key, but gives off so much warmth. Moonlit Winter takes its time slowly building up its mood, packing up emotions through simple, intimate moments around its main characters. Beautifully encapsulated the idea that memories are fleeting, yet there is something about photographs and handwritten letters that truly last forever.