Movie No. 21 (2014): SECRET SUNSHINE
Secret Sunshine (2007)
Director: Lee Chang-dong
Cast: Jeon Deo-yeon, Song Kang-ho
In Korean, with English subtitles
Shin-ae gave up her career as a concert pianist when she married her husband. When her husband died, she decided to leave Seoul for good and translocate permanently to a Miryang, a small town where her husband was born and raised.
Rating: 3.5/4.0
Date seen: February 18, 2014
Director: Lee Chang-dong
Cast: Jeon Deo-yeon, Song Kang-ho
In Korean, with English subtitles
Shin-ae gave up her career as a concert pianist when she married her husband. When her husband died, she decided to leave Seoul for good and translocate permanently to a Miryang, a small town where her husband was born and raised.
In Miryang she starts a school for piano lessons. She meets people that seem to be nice. Unforeseen tragedy happens. Then the rest of the movie is practically an examination of grief that Shin-ae tries to find a way out of, even joining a Christian cult to find peace of mind. And it only results in an even more tortuous implications.
The movie is never contrived. The story is concise and its telling is fluid. Jeon Deo-yeon's performance is something for the book.
Date seen: February 18, 2014
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