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Jul 27, 201288Gentle, simply told love stories are as rare in documentaries these days as they are in narrative film. That alone makes Yi Seung-jun's Planet of Snail a standout.
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80Planet of Snail is simple, direct and magical. The warm, intimate story of a singular couple, it won the top prize at the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and it will win you over as well if you give it the chance.
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Jul 27, 201280More often Planet of Snail evokes, in radiant detail, the mutual reliance that makes good partnerships work.
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80This is a love story of uncommon loveliness and simplicity.
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80Above all, this beautifully photographed documentary is a poetic meditation on refined sensory perception.
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80The spirit of the movie is nonjudgmental, an observational intimacy that, in turn, becomes inspiring.
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80A disability-centric documentary that moves viewers without resorting to trite devices, Seung-Jun Yi's Planet of Snail takes a condition most of us would find unbearable and demystifies it while finding room for poetry.
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Jul 25, 201275With little story to speak of, Planet Of Snail is more of an experiential piece, closing in on the pleasure and wonder with which Young-chan takes in details like rain falling outside the window and the bark of a tree.
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Jul 23, 201275Even with the heaviness of some of its subject matter, the documentary remains limpid and unsentimental until the very end, in keeping with its subject.
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70An unadorned, unsentimental portrait of a marriage, Yi Seung-jun's documentary Planet of Snail celebrates the daily life of an exceptionally collaborative couple.
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60What emerges is a touching study (in more ways than one) of the trials, terrors and triumphs of living with physical disability.
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38The Korean documentary Planet of Snail is spare and unemphatic - too much so - with an abiding sweetness of spirit.