Sore: A Wife from the Future · reception & legacy
2025 · Yandy Laurens
How Sore: A Wife from the Future has been received, argued over, and remembered.
The arc
Opened in Indonesia in July 2025 as a local event film, then spent the rest of the year climbing Letterboxd's global charts — within months it had cracked the platform's highest-rated films and topped its best-of-2025 sci-fi and romance lists, ahead of Hollywood tentpoles with a hundred times its budget.
What's debated
The perennial debate is film vs. the beloved 2017 web series it remakes — whether Yandy Laurens' big-screen version deepens the original or whether the scrappy nine-episode YouTube run remains the purer artefact.
Its footprint
It became the flagship of Indonesian cinema's Letterboxd breakout — the film that non-Indonesian cinephiles suddenly had to explain seeing in their friends' four favourites, complete with an official Letterboxd Four Favorites spot for Laurens and stars Sheila Dara and Dion Wiyoko.
Where it stands
An instant Letterboxd darling and the current 'start here' answer for Indonesian cinema — rare company for a Southeast Asian romance in the platform's top-rated ranks.