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‘All the Long Nights’ Review: Two Chipped Souls Fall in Like with Each Other in a Tender Story of Redemptive Connection
A young woman with severe PMS befriends a colleague with an anxiety disorder in Japanese director Shô Miyake's gentle, glowy "All The Long Nights."
It is hard to avoid some comic absurdity when once a month, Misa (Mone Kamishiraishi), a sunny-natured twentysomething with a plaintive Pierrot face, experiences erratic personality swings that see her lash out verbally at surprised co-workers, and make her prone to napping in inappropriate places. Five years later, a similar challenge faces Takatoshi (Hokuto Matsumura), a handsome if surly young man whose unpredictable panic attacks have forced him to park his high-flying career aspirations and take a far less impressive job at a company that makes science and astronomy kits for children. This is especially notable because there is a bad, Hollywoodized way this story could have been told, dripping with “Pay it Forward” schmaltz, leaning too hard on the metaphor of the cosmos (Misa and Taktoshi bond over a planetarium show the company is mounting) and unable to resist the urge to have the pair fall in love.
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