I Have Loved You For 30 Years, Yayoi

While it's nice that we get to see 30 years of two characters' lives as they evolve, wither, and blossom again, it's just that those excerpts don't quite make you like or understand the characters. Maybe not understand them, so much as sympathize with them. Basically, the whole film left me cold except for the moment when the camera panned to an alarm clock, which also showed the date: 11 March 2011. That made me cringe, but then the film went on its way. It doesn't develop one coherent story, but glues the pieces together weirdly. I can see why, it's obvious, we are after all looking at thirty years of their lives; but it didn't quite work for me. It had a lot of interesting ideas that would have been better if they were explored more in-depth rather than being done away with like that. The acting was perfectly fine, the main characters were likable, the direction and script were well handled. But it just didn't leave anything in me, and in two weeks I won't even know I've seen it. (01/03/2021)