There’s a rodeo that takes place early in “Lovesong,” the latest feature from director So Yong Kim (“In Between Days”). There’s also a years-long dance of unrealized love between two young women. But this is no lesbian “Brokeback Mountain.”
The former detail is mostly incidental, and the love story — more pronounced longing than announced intent — is the quietly heartbreaking sort, depicted as more of a wishful dream than anything else. Of course, all of this suits Kim’s delicate objectives perfectly, and if there’s a cinematic cousin to this sensitive, sorrowful film, it’s “Moonlight.”
Sarah (Riley Keough) is a young mother to a typically rambunctious three-year-old daughter, and wife to a husband (filmmaker Cary Fukunaga) who Skypes in from a series of endless work trips.