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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are US release (Oscar eligibility).

6/28/2025

Live Twice, Love Once (2019)

A widowed, retired professor is diagnosed with Alzheimers and decides to track down a teenage crush. His granddaughter stows away with him and soon her parents have joined the trip as well.

Though the story sneaked into "feelings engaged" territory a couple of times, it always felt cheap somehow. Like this fixation on a ghost from his youth is somehow cute or romantic, when it felt to me that it simply reduced his actual life to second-best. I just could not get on-board.

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