✅ Sad, funny, beautiful.
✅ One of my SO’s uncles is Teochew, but I’d never heard this wonderful Southern Min language spoken before.
✅ Script, cinematography, acting, and backdrop are authentic and heart-stirring.
Intensive emotional scenes are very intimate or restrained or comically counterbalanced, so when a critic spots “occasional melodrama,” it’s clear they have no idea about melodrama, not even as a (largely useless and ill-defined) film category.
給阿嬤的情書 (Grandma’s Love Letters) aka Dear You by Lan Hongchun, 2026.
Watched at the CineStar theater on September 14, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.