Event Details
In person: actor Park Hae-il
Renowned poet Lee Juk-yo, 70, has become a recluse, mechanically pushing through his bland days, until they are pleasantly disrupted by high school student Eun-gyo, who comes into his life, bringing fresh energy. Lee starts working on a new novel, the dullness of his life giving way to color, possibilities, even daydreams. But that color starts to dim when Seo Ji-woo, Lee’s former student/assistant, becomes involved with Eun-gyo, and jealousy moves in instead. Based on a novel of the same name by Park Beom-shin, Eungyo explores themes of youth, and the poignant notion of its loss and redemption, with Park Hae-il delivering a notable interpretation of those themes through his character’s numbness and dissociation.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2012 | 129 min | South Korea | Color| Korean | DCP
DIRECTED BY: Jung Ji-woo
WRITTEN BY: Jung Ji-woo
PRODUCED BY: Jung Ji-woo, Kim Soon-ho
WITH: Park Hae-il, Kim Go-eun, Kim Mu-yeol, Jeong Man-sik