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I was expecting a silly and light as air comedy when I netflixed Linda Linda Linda a japanese film by Nobuhiro Yamashita (trailer here). I was pleasantly surprised by a truly enjoyable, calm and refreshing movie. There’s no big drama in here and the movie is indeed light, but not as in superficial, rather as in wonderfully understated. Linda Linda Linda has a slow and deliberate pace, filled with a pervasive feeling of nostalgia. It’s wonderful to see a story with a point of view steadily focused on its female leads, it’s their movie and it feels honest and real in its simplicity. Many of the shots are really about setting up mood and subtly building characters, seldom about advancing plot, I fully appreciate that. It’s no mistake that Yamashita has been called the Jim Jarmusch of Japan. I’ll keep an eye out on his next movie Tennen Kokekko (trailer here).

Oh, and yes, there’s no escape, you will be singing Linda Linda Linda!! (by the Blue Hearts) for days on end after watching this movie … at least I was.

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