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The Room Nearby
13th(2008) Korean Cinema Today
Social Criticism · Women · Psychology
- CountryKorea
- Production Year2008
- Running Time106min
- Format HD
- ColorCOLOR
Program Note
Eon-ju, a private tutor lives in a packed student-apartment. She is sick of poverty and works hard to get her own room. She drops by a realtor’s office as often as possible to see what is there. One day, she witnesses a homeless person coming out of a huge time-share in a rich town. It turns out to be the house of Seok-hee, a middle-aged woman. Eon-ju envies what Seok-hee possesses, but Seok-hee is overwhelmed by loneliness. Seok-hee always prepares meals for the homeless who saved her life. This film is reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, and the director Goh Tae-jeong fills every room with the lives and desires of lonely and hurtful women. Eon-ju decides to buy the house, but faces a new problem when her boyfriend has a traffic accident; Seok-hee attempts to kill herself when she experiences a new feeling or romance. The voices of women who are stuck in their own rooms are low and depressing. (LEE Sang-yong)
Director
GOH Tae-jeong
Goh graduated from the Korean Academy of Film Arts and participated in Min Kyu-dong’s All for Love (2005). Her
short film Everyone, Shut Up!(2007) was screened at the 6th Mise-en-Scen´e Short Film Festival and the New York
Asian Film Festival. The Room Nearby which gives a detailed portrayal of women’s dilemmas, is a feature film
project of KAFA’s ‘Advanced Program’.
Photo
Credit
- Director GOH Tae-jeong 고태정
- Producer KIM Young-wha, JUNG Hyung-rae
- Cast YE Su-jeong, JUNG Yu-mi
- Screenplay GOH Tae-jeong
- Cinematography KIM Goo-young
- Production Company
Korea Academy of Film Arts
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