LKFF 2022: Director's Intention

Director’s Intention 영화의 거리

DIRECTOR: KIM MIN-GEUN

WRITER: KIM YE-SOL, KIM MIN-GEUN

PRODUCER: KIM YE-SOL

CAST: HAN SUN-HWA, LEE WAN

DRAMA, ROMANCE, COMEDY / 2021 / 77 MIN / CERT. 12

Busan-based location scout Sun-hwa (Han Sun-hwa) believes that a location should be invested with feelings to express the director’s intention - which gets personal when she has to work at the last minute with director Do-young(Lee Wan), the ex-boyfriend who some time ago left town (and her) to work in Seoul, and is now back for a trip down memory lane, and possibly to rekindle old love. Sung-hwa has a repertoire of resonant locations that she thinks will suit Do-young’s film, but is there still a place for her in his heart? Like Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s 36 (2012), Kim Min-geun’s sophisticated second-chance romance foregrounds the contribution of a location scout’s work to a film. Agreeably self-reflexive and unusually understated in its melodrama, this locates nostalgia, situation and memory at the centre of cinema, and inevitably comes with a strong sense of place.