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Turn Left, Turn Right

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2003 · 96 min Romance Drama
7.2 / 10 · TMDB

A violinist composing melodies in her room and a translator filling pages with text live in adjacent apartments of the same building. Their worlds are separated only by a thin wall, yet their daily routines are mirror images. Each morning, they exit the building simultaneously, but one turns left, the other right, embarking on their separate routes through a city where their paths nearly converge—at the same park bench, the same fountain, under the same rain. Fate seems to orchestrate their near-misses, leaving only traces of each other behind: a forgotten sheet of music, a line from a poem, a sodden note on wet pavement.

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Original Title 向左走.向右走
Year 2003
Country Hong Kong, Singapore
Genre Romance, Drama
Director Johnnie To
Runtime 96 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.2/10 (36 votes)

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The film transforms coincidence into poetry and urban bustle into a labyrinth for two lonely souls. Shots composed with a near-musical rhythm highlight the irony of their proximity and the inevitability of missing each other by mere seconds.

What lingers after the credits is a tender, melancholic fable about how cityscapes become metaphors for the emotional distance between people. It leaves a quiet question about how many turns we take unaware that we walk parallel to our own happiness. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Johnnie To

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