Well, this one snuck up on me. It feels like a pretty standard documentary, set in one of a handful of schools in South Korea that are set up specifically for the children of defectors from North Korea.
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Director Lee Isaac Chung, sat down to write a final screenplay before taking on a ‘real job ‘for the sake of his family. Taking inspiration from Willa Cather, he closed his eyes and wrote down memories of his childhood.
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This was a strong debut from Oh Jung-min and reminded me of some other South Korean films I’ve seen that have a lyrical, pastoral nature and observe family dynamics and traditions without a lot of exposition or judgement (Burning, House of the Hummingbird).
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On my forays to Melbourne, I don’t often re-watch a film at the cinema – so many new films, so little time – but Parasite was worth a second go, especially as Cinema Nova was screening a black-and-white version.
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What starts as a talking heads documentary about North Korean defectors becomes a gripping race to safety as we follow a family who have crossed the border into a hostile China.
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Set predominantly within an apartment, Bong Joon-ho protege Jason Yu’s ‘not really a horror’ hits the right balance between creepiness and drama.
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Celine Song’s debut feature is a quiet and lyrical ode to inyeon, the Korean term for “the miracle of being in the same room together at the same time.”
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I’m not sure what I was expecting from Oldboy but I didn’t think it would be quite so hard to watch.
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