I Will Make You Mine

Its an eye opener. Great story line. Glad to watch a film like this in womans perspective. Sometimes womans point of view are least prioritized. But in this movie it feels like woman are given chance to tell their own story and struggles. I love you Lynn Chen! 🙌🏼

I really loved this movie. I came in not having seen the first 2 films (on purpose b/c I wanted to have fresh eyes) and while I know it's the final film in a trilogy, it's an amazing piece of storytelling that stands all on its own. I'm a lover of character driven indie film and this is just phenomenal. Grounded, understated, complex and yet tender in the way it deals with the curveballs and reality that life throws at you, and it tugs at your heart in a way that I know I'll be thinking about for a long time to come. In the same way that Before Sunrise completely moved me and cemented itself in my heart, this film has done the same and now has a place in time for me. Written and directed by Lynn Chen, the characters of I Will Make You Mine have captured me and now I'm going to go and watch the first two films! I'm also an Asian-American woman in my late 30s/early 40s myself and it's truly wonderful to see life depicted as it truly is. Freaking refreshing. Absolutely recommend this movie!

As a first time feature director, I feel like Lynn Chen had an awful lot to say about women, about being Asian in America, about relationships, about getting older, and about the female perspective on love and just life in general. A lot of these topics are things that don't get explored very often in cinema so this adds a level of importance to the film as well. If these are the types of stories that we are going to see from Chen in the future, I am going to need to know where I can sign up to be first in line for all of it.

I Will Make You Mine will make you fall in love with story telling, with cinema, and with a film maker that I believe is just getting started. This movie not only completes the Surrogate Valentine trilogy, it makes the other two films better. In a year that so far has been quite a bit different from any we have experienced during our time, this movie easily stands out as 2020's first truly great film.

What a treat to find a movie with this kind of heart. At a time when the world is hurting so much, and so torn apart, 'I Will Make You Mine' takes great care to tell a story that we all need. A story about love, and loss, about friendship and heart ache, and about getting on with living. Lynn Chen tells this story with tenderness but doesn't pull any punches, and the cast is pitch perfect. I highly recommend it.

Listening to a song compels Rachel to wonder about her best friend growing up, Goh. A song performed by Goh at a funeral moves his partner to reconsider her life. And another part of Goh's past misses her music and puts her on a path to reconnect with him as well. The outcomes of each transforming their lives and sparking old memories and feelings.

I wonder if young people will get it but I thought it was an interesting plot that riffs on memory and music being so thickly intertwined. I thought it was touching and had great performances from the actors and best direction and writing. I don't really understand why black and white was a good fit for the film, but i really enjoyed the film regardless.