Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
These foreign films share the same emotional core, themes, and structural feel as Soul. Every one of them has confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
Like Soul, this one is rooted in belonging, figuring out who you are, and loss of innocence. They share the same lens on family wounds passed down, old ways vs. new world, and family duty. Both move the same way too, warm, whimsical, episodic, and escalating.
Like Soul, this one is rooted in belonging and figuring out who you are. Both circle the same ground: family duty and family wounds passed down. Same energy: whimsical, warm, dreamlike, and escalating.
Like Soul, this one is rooted in figuring out who you are, belonging, and loss of innocence. They share the same lens on family wounds passed down. Same energy: whimsical, hopeful, escalating, and dreamlike.
Both films sit with belonging, loss of innocence, and longing. Both circle the same ground: family duty and family wounds passed down. Both move the same way too, melancholic, hopeful, and episodic.
Like Soul, this one is rooted in longing, figuring out who you are, and belonging. Both circle the same ground: family wounds passed down, family duty, and old ways vs. new world. The feel is the same: warm, hopeful, dreamlike, and episodic.
What ties these together is belonging, redemption, and loss of innocence. Both circle the same ground: family duty, family wounds passed down, and old ways vs. new world. Same energy: warm, hopeful, escalating, and episodic.
What ties these together is belonging and figuring out who you are. The world both films live in revolves around family wounds passed down and family duty. Same energy: whimsical, warm, escalating, and episodic.
Both films sit with figuring out who you are and belonging. The world both films live in revolves around family wounds passed down. Same energy: hopeful, whimsical, escalating, and episodic.
