Cancelled Faces
2015 · Movie · 80 min. · South Korea
Korea, the now: A young man makes a fateful encounter with a stranger he passionately falls in love with. When Unk rides his scooter through the night he fails to notice a drunk pedestrian, a man called Boaz, and hits him. The accident has unforeseen repercussions since shortly afterwards Unk and Boaz start an intense relationship that leads into a gradually worsening dependency and the nouveau-noir story of absorption and autonomy takes its course. Filmed as a gay melodrama in black-and-white shots, the classically narrative strands are intertwined with scenes from an eccentric theatre production that incorporates stories of the great revolt of the Jews against the Roman Empire. Bit by bit, the lines between a romantically orchestrated reality and the performative staging of a fictional tale begin to blur.
Direction Lior Shamriz
Cast Kim Won-Mok · Lee Je-Yeon · Ye Soo-jung · Kwon Ki-Ha · Park Jun-Hyeok · Lee Ju-Hee · Kim Tae-hee · Seo Bo-Sang · Gim Ye-Na · Seo Li-Seul · Kim Yoo-jin · Lee Han-Saem · Park Jeong-Woo · Kim Sun-Young · Lee Jae-Ho · Park Sung-Jun · Jung Woo-Hyun · Park Je-Ha
Soundtrack Ohal Grietzer
Screenplay Lior Shamriz
Original title Cancelled Faces
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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