Columbus (2017)

Columbus is gorgeous, simple, really moving. In a way it is a talky piece about a man dealing with his father and a very young woman dealing with her mother, but Kogonada has shot the architecture of Columbus (Indiana not Ohio) so lovingly, that the film becomes much more than it seems to be, and Columbus is about how we love the spaces around us, how we get comfortable, and how we help the people we're with.

Kogonada loves Ozu (as he should, he's the best director ever to make movies), and it shows in the way he photographs spaces and silence between people.

This is a quiet, lovely film with some beautiful photography and great performances (Haley Lu Richardson is really wonderful). I was very moved.

Kogonada's next film is called After Yang. It is supposed to be released in 2020, and it stars Haley Lu Richardson (good choice) and Colin Farrell (!). I don't know when we get to see this, but I'm ready.