Hyeon-seong, a film director struggling with writing a new screenplay, visits a remote southern island he stayed 10 years ago to fulfill a promise he made with his girlfriend at the time. As he waits on the secluded island to see if the promise will also be kept by now his ex-girlfriend, he gets to know an oddly charming young motel operator So-yeon. —IMDb
Il-gon Song was born in Seoul and studied cinema at the National Academy of Film in Lodz, Poland. He shot to prominence on the strength of the Cannes Jury Prize winning short film The Picnic (1998). His filmography includes Pusan International Film Festival New Currents-winner Flower Island (2001), Spider Forest (2004), Feathers in the Wind (2004), The Magicians (2005), and Dance of Time (2010).
My favorite scene in the movie is the tango dream sequence of So-Yeon with an unnamed woman (mother?).
Hyeon-seong is a minor film director who has just completed a mediocre film. Under the pretext of writing his next screenplay, he goes on vacation to an island in the south. Nearly ten years ago he… read review