Columbus 🗼

Happy Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Last week’s recommendations were a bit… intense, so I promise today will be lighter.

Today’s movie is Columbus (2017), a romance streaming on Hulu. This wildly overlooked and underseen gem by video essayist Kogonada, who has often cut supplemental material for the Criterion Collection, has quickly become one of my favorite movies of this century.

Here’s what it’s about: After his father falls ill while on a speaking tour in Columbus, Indiana — a small midwestern town renowned for its modern architecture — Jin (John Cho) finds himself stuck waiting for his condition to improve. While wandering around the town he strikes up a conversation with local Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), a young architecture enthusiast. [Trailer // 104 mins]

Why you should watch it: Every time I watch Columbus I fall deeper in love with it. This time what struck me is how it perfectly captures the feeling of two people at a crossroads in life — between relationships…