film
Decision to Leave
[Heojil kyolshim], directed by Park Chan-wook, South Korea 2022, 138'
- The latest film from Park Chan-wook – author of the blockbusters Oldboy and The Handmaiden – won the Best Director Award at Cannes and was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Decision to Leave is a confusing and suspenseful story about the attraction of opposites and a love that thwarts all plans.
- The protagonist is a policeman who, while solving a death case, falls in love with the main suspect: the widow of the deceased. He suffers from insomnia; she knows how to dull his vigilance. He is married; she loses husbands easily. He watches outside her house at night; she likes to be watched. He knows less and less but feels more and more for her. Decision to Leave covers the tracks and lays false trails, as the thrilling film noir imperceptibly changes into a black comedy, disguises itself as a classic melodrama, and then turns into a spy story. It pulses with energy and romance, proving that Park Chan-wook is one of the world’s finest directors.
- Decision to Leave is a film about a love bordering on obsession that no one noticed and that may not have existed at all. But if it wasn’t there, why does it hurt so much?
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