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Blesser

28th(2023) Jiseok

Family/Child · Remake/Adaptation · True Story · Women  

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2023
  • Running Time105min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
Sang-yeon is a confident and competent political reporter who lives a carefully planned life. After a long wait, she gives birth to twins, but the second one, Ji-woo, is diagnosed with a second-degree developmental disability. That’s when things change. Sang-yeon can no longer be the same person, and everything turns upside down. Based on the autobiographical story of a former journalist and mother of a child with a disability, the film spans over a decade and reveals, through various anecdotes, the very real and concrete challenges that parents and families with disabled children face. In particular, it is when Ji-woo enters elementary school that the prejudicial stigma surrounding disability and the loopholes in the system officially come into play. It takes Sang-yeon a long time to accept the movie’s message that “disability is not something to be cured but a way of life” into her own life. This time taken will overlap and resonate with the time outside of the movie for a while, leaving us with long questions and a long aftermath. (JEONG Jihye)
Director
Director
LEE Sangcheol
Born in Seoul in 1975, Lee Sangcheol graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at Hanyang University and the Korean Academy of Film Arts. He worked as an assistant director on director Myung-se Lee′s films Duelist (2005) and M (2007). His feature film, Jesus Hospital (2011), won the Busan International Film Festival Citizen Critics’ and Best Actress awards. Lee Sangcheol also directed his short film, Fuzzy (2003), and feature films including Metamorphosis (2010), Redemption Song (2014), and The Snobs (2018).
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Credit
  • Director LEE Sangcheol 이상철
  • Producer Aga SHIN 신아가
  • Cast Jaehwa KIM 김재화, Dohyun SUNG 성도현, Joowon BEEN 빈주원, Harin LEE 이하린
  • Cinematography Hyunil CHO 조현일
  • Production Design Jinyoung KIM 김진영
  • Music Daewoong IM 임대웅
  • Production Company AS FILMS
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