A long and formal love movie. A French garden, a Japanese hot spring; a long journey, two women. It's obviously an ordinary story of a man who went on a business trip stealthily (or cheated in his mind) and came back to be sorry for a woman, and had to rely on life and death romance. Is it a profound misunderstanding when Westerners look at Eastern culture? A few Japanese letters, a tea ceremony, and a wooden tub bath can produce a life-and-death love? I think it's an obsession with an unfamiliar culture.
Not sure if it's a French movie. Although the scene takes place in France, English is spoken, and the ending is quite Hollywood. The letter received by the male protagonist in Japanese from afar is nothing but a confession of love from his wife before her death. Then the male protagonist sits in the garden built by his wife and confesses to the gardener. Zoom out. The whole film is over. well! Too sweet and pretentious.
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