Photograph
courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Venice
71: Film Festival – Jayueui Onduk (Hill of Freedom) - Hong Sangsoo. Jayueui Onduk
directed by Korean Hong Sangsoo stars Ryo Kase, Moon Sori, Younghwa Seo and Kim
Euisung. Kwon, a language school
instructor, stops by her old workplace and receives a thick envelope addressed
to her. A Japanese instructor named Mori had proposed to her two years ago. She
turned him down. Mori had immediately gone back to Japan, but now was back in
Korea looking for her. The envelope enclosed letters he had written to her
during his search through Seoul. After Kwon finishes the first letter in the lobby,
she grows faint coming down the staircase and drops the letters. She gathers
them off the floor and sees there are no dates on the letters. She now has no
way of knowing the order in which they were written.
Jayueui
Onduk - Hong Sangsoo. “These were my initial thoughts: a woman receives letters
from a man from her past. A man she remains undecided about. The thick envelope
contains number of undated letters written in diary format. The startled woman
fumbles with the letters, messing up their sequential order by mistake. How
does this affect the significance of the content she will be reading? Can this
disorder of sequence work to lessen the woman’s shock when reading the man’s letters?”
States Sangsoo.
Above.
The director and cast arrive for the premiere of Jayueui Onduk
(Hill of Freedom).
Hong Sangsoo
and Kase Ryo
Kim
Euisung and Kase Ryo
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