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Directed by : Lee Chang-dong
Release date: 30 July 2008
Duration: 142 minutes
Genre: Drama
Country : Korea (2007)
Original language: Korean

 Synopsis

In this somber Korean drama, a young mother and widow, Shinae, moves with her young son, Jun, from Seoul to a small town called Miryang following her husband's death. Having given up on her career as a concert pianist when she married her husband, she starts up a piano school, but soon it begins to feel like the polite people who inhabit her new home aren't as friendly as they seem on the surface. Judgmental whispers and disapproving gossip begin to reach Shinae's ears, and pressure to join the Christian cult that thrives in the town begins to mount. She's hesitant until an unimaginable tragedy alters her life forever, setting Shinae on a dark path of withdrawal from society as a whole.

 

 

 

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