Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
(Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon)
Country: KOR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Cast: Jeong Eun-Chae, Seon-gyun Lee
Synopsis:
A Seoul student writes a diary of her mother's departure for Canada and her evolving relationship with a film director who lectures at the university.
Review:
Curious, intimiste portrait of an affectless young girl who inspires adoration in the men around her. It resembles Rohmer in its ambling narrative of encounters in city streets, parks and cafes, even breaking the customary oriental distancing two-shot by zooming in at times on the characters and panning between them. But the inscrutability is wholly sui generis, the older, married man as frustrated by her indifference as she is realistic about the options open to him; and still she returns to him. What does it all mean, or is it all a dream, as one repeated shot of her waking up in the library suggests?
(Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon)
Country: KOR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Cast: Jeong Eun-Chae, Seon-gyun Lee
Synopsis:
A Seoul student writes a diary of her mother's departure for Canada and her evolving relationship with a film director who lectures at the university.
Review:
Curious, intimiste portrait of an affectless young girl who inspires adoration in the men around her. It resembles Rohmer in its ambling narrative of encounters in city streets, parks and cafes, even breaking the customary oriental distancing two-shot by zooming in at times on the characters and panning between them. But the inscrutability is wholly sui generis, the older, married man as frustrated by her indifference as she is realistic about the options open to him; and still she returns to him. What does it all mean, or is it all a dream, as one repeated shot of her waking up in the library suggests?
(Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon)
Country: KOR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Cast: Jeong Eun-Chae, Seon-gyun Lee
Synopsis:
A Seoul student writes a diary of her mother's departure for Canada and her evolving relationship with a film director who lectures at the university.
Review:
Curious, intimiste portrait of an affectless young girl who inspires adoration in the men around her. It resembles Rohmer in its ambling narrative of encounters in city streets, parks and cafes, even breaking the customary oriental distancing two-shot by zooming in at times on the characters and panning between them. But the inscrutability is wholly sui generis, the older, married man as frustrated by her indifference as she is realistic about the options open to him; and still she returns to him. What does it all mean, or is it all a dream, as one repeated shot of her waking up in the library suggests?