Friday, March 23, 5:45pm, UNC Charlotte main campus, Rowe 130 (Campus map)
Directed by Sang-soo Hong, 141 min.
Korean with English subtitles
Followed by Q&A with Sam Shapiro, a Charlotte film critic
Sponsored by the Charlotte Asian Film Festival, the UNC Charlotte Department of Philosophy, and the UNC Charlotte Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund
The actress Younghee, stressed by a relationship with a married man in Korea, has given up everything, as the least courtesy she can show her sincere heart. He has said he’ll join her, but she mistrusts him. She eats at an acquaintance’s home and goes to a sea. She asks her friend, who she thinks does not understand: “Is he missing me now, like I miss him?” Gangneung, Korea. A few old friends. Things are awkward, they drink, and she decides to startle them. She acts aloof, then cruelly, but they like it. Left alone, Younghee goes to the beach, where things inside her heart manifest themselves, then fade like mist. How important is love in one’s life? Younghee wants to know.
