Tagged: mood: heartbroken

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Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Comrades: Almost a Love Story is a love story (it really is, it’s not an almost). However, the story almost adds elements that take you to the precise time and place alongside these people, who stop being characters from a movie and become real people.

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You Are the Apple of my Eye

Taiwan’s biggest surprise of 2011 — also being pretty popular in Hong Kong and Singapore — a romantic drama called You Are the Apple of my Eye. But what’s so amazingly appealing about a simple romantic drama involving teenagers, you say?

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Chang-rae Lee – Aloft

Chang-rae Lee’s prose is so lyrical, he could build grocery shopping up as the epicenter of a crisis in singularity, transform clipping toenails into an existential quandary, and make sorting the recycling a prophecy of something tragic in the Greek sense of the word.

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Notebook, The

Nicholas Sparks and the cheesy movie poster doesn’t help, but guess what? The Notebook was actually a pretty darn good romance.

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Marit Larsen – Spark

Marit Larsen’s The Spark is certainly more pop rock than ever, with really soft hints of folk with a grandeur background orchestra.

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Chouchou-san

Chouchou-san is Japan’s NHK’s take on the famous Puccini’s opera, Madame Butterfly.

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Chico & Rita

Chico & Rita is a chronicle of long lost love, as the couple’s relationship is a roller-coaster of emotions, but it also follows the evolution of Cuban music.