After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
The last shot is a woman walking back up a street and I have thought about it most weeks since. No trick to it at all.
Why this scoreLong persistence of a specific image; exceptional.
I emigrated at nine and this is the first film that has made me phone my mother straight afterwards.
Why this scorePersonal resonance with an immediate described action; top band.
Nell Fairbairn
17 May 2026
Almost nothing happens and I was gripped. The bar scene at the end is three people being decent to each other and it hurt.
Why this scoreSpecific scene named and an emotional response reported; strong.
