60/100
Second viewing, up from 55. Still have mixed feelings about the first two stories, but I liked "Once Again" significantly more this time, probably because I wasn't anticipating/fearing a double-reverse twist that never actually happens. Unlike, say, Rohmer's best films, though—and Hamaguchi's other films, for that matter—this triptych of extended conversations often does seem as if it would work equally well if not better onstage. He's not doing anything all that formally invigorating in my opinion.
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