Avalyn Wu’s review published on Letterboxd:
Stunned at how much I cried. There's a real logic of suspense that underlies how Hong constructs his scenes, which always make you anticipate a sudden reframing, a sudden rupture of emotion from beneath the concealing surface of calm niceties. But it's never a parlor trick, a pompous display of virtuosity. It's simply a mastery over the core principles of filmmaking, when to move and when to hold, when to cut and when to readjust. These characters transform in front of us because they must, because there is nothing else they could possibly do with these feelings and worries. We are treated to a process without dogma, an openness to where following through on a gesture can take us. It's the core of the film's most moving scene, among the most moving I've seen all year, where Chu Si-eon asks Jeon-im's students to declare who they want to be. How affecting it is to see an older man take so seriously the concerns and aspirations of a group of young women, to see him offer the space for their first steps in self-actualization. In his own way, Hong has done the same for me.
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