Be With You (2018) poster
2018 · romance · drama · fantasy · music

Be With You

Directed by Lee Jang-hoon2h 12m2018
ElsewhereIMDb7.78kRT80%
  • warm
  • redemptive
  • tender
Movie DNA

Warm, steady, gentle romance / drama, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Along with his young son, Ji-ho, Woo-jin misses his wife Soo-a, who died after promising to return a year later with the rainy season. Miraculously, they reunite with Soo-a when the rainy season comes around, but she has no memory of her husband and son whom she dearly loved.

Our read · Be With You (2018) reads as a warm, steady, inventive romance · drama · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a rainy-season Korean tearjerker about love beyond memory.

ends bittersweetit will wreck youa slow buildgrips by minute 15attention 4/5feels its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if two-hour melodrama and subtitles will drain you tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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