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TOUCH
Valentine's Day @ Rose Ash. Baltasar Kormákur’s beautifully shot romance sees Kristófer try to track down Miko, a lifetime after their youthful love affair is unexpectedly cut short
TOUCH @ Rose Ash
£5 in advance or on the door. Doors open 7pm. Film starts 7.30pm. BYOB.
Notes tucked between the leaves of a book; plastic cherry blossoms; a verse or two of an old poem … mere ephemera, to anyone other than the people to whom these relics mean everything. The people in question in this sweeping romantic drama are Kristófer (Palmi Kormákur) and Miko (Kōki), the participants in a clandestine love affair in 1960s London cut brutally short by the obligations of family. (Guardian)
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I loved this movie, partly because I've always been a hopeless romantic. But "Touch" brings together so much from cross-cultural love, the struggle to understand never-before-seen illnesses, and the power of remembering first loves. "Touch" (a recurring visual theme between lovers) perhaps has a bit too neat an ending, but it was all very satisfying. I came close to giving it a 10. Steiner Sam
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Is there something worse than loving someone and losing them for five decades? Yes, there is. This film about two people who leave an irreversible touch on each other brought tears to my eyes. The Australian
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Touch is an absorbing, touching and simply lovely drama. And one of the year’s best? Yeah, maybe. The Decider
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Touch is Baltasar Kormákur’s masterpiece… a testament to all that survives in the heart. The Curb
