Planet of Snail

Gentle, simply told love stories are as rare in documentaries these days as they are in narrative film. That alone makes Yi Seung-jun's Planet of Snail a standout.

More often Planet of Snail evokes, in radiant detail, the mutual reliance that makes good partnerships work.

Above all, this beautifully photographed documentary is a poetic meditation on refined sensory perception.

A disability-centric documentary that moves viewers without resorting to trite devices, Seung-Jun Yi's Planet of Snail takes a condition most of us would find unbearable and demystifies it while finding room for poetry.

With little story to speak of, Planet Of Snail is more of an experiential piece, closing in on the pleasure and wonder with which Young-chan takes in details like rain falling outside the window and the bark of a tree.

An unadorned, unsentimental portrait of a marriage, Yi Seung-jun's documentary Planet of Snail celebrates the daily life of an exceptionally collaborative couple.

The Korean documentary Planet of Snail is spare and unemphatic - too much so - with an abiding sweetness of spirit.