Synopsis
Seung-yun (male, 9) is an ordinary kid like other boys who has many dreams and likes to play outside. But, his over-solicitous mom, Hee-jung, forces Seung-yun to study too many things. From the early morning at school to the late night at after school classes and private lessons, Seung-yun’s life is agonizing. In addition, because of a sudden fever of intensified English program at school, Seung-yun’s pain is getting deeper. However, Hee-jung would not give up the initiative over every steps and moments of Seung-yun.
Joo-hoon starts working at the welfare department of a district office. By the way, in consecutive obligated dinners and parties with colleagues, he is being isolated because he is a vegetarian abstaining from drinking alcohols and meats, so that his working life becomes a torturing. Joo-hoon makes efforts to get along with male colleagues who bully Joo-hoon, but it does not look that easy. .
Joo-hoon’s senior, the head of the welfare department, Kwon Soo-young lives alone because his wife and children are abroad to study. Kwon dislikes coming back his empty home, so he constantly asks his colleagues out for drinking together, but colleagues often make excuses to avoid his suggestion. One day his family comes back to visit, but there are strange feelings among those family members. Kwon do not feel any family bonding, as they treat him as an unfamiliar relative, not a father and husband.
Kwon and Song have been married for almost 50 years now. Song has been well patient of her authoritarian husband, Kwon, but recently an occurring incident makes her to decide getting divorced. The incident was, as soon as she finally got a driver’s license in spite of Kwon’s objection, he suddenly sold his car. In an anger of her, she eventually asks her husband to get divorced.
Director's Note
Director's Bio / Filmography
- YIM Soon-rye
Born in Korea.
She received BA in English Literature, MA in Theater & Film from Hanyang University. She graduated from Universite Vincennes A Saint-Denis, Paris majoring in Film Studies. She directed films “Waikiki Brothers”(2001) and “Her weight-an episode of If You Were Me” (2003). Her recent film “Forever the Moment” (2008) obtained over 4 million audiences after the theater release.
1994 [Promenade in the Rain] 35mm, color, 13min.
Best Film & Young Critics Award, 1st Seoul Short Film Festival (Korea, 1994)
1996 [Three Friends] 35mm, color, 90min.
Int’l Forum, 47th Berlin Int’l Film Festival (1997, Germany)
2001 [Waikiki Brothers] 35mm, color, 92min.
Opening Film, 2nd Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2001, Korea)
NETPAC Awards, 6th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2001, Korea)
20th Vancouver International Film Festival (2001, Canada)
21st Hawaii International Film Festival (2001, USA)
44th The Times BFI London Film Festival (2001, UK)
2003 [Her weight-an episode of If You Were Me] 35mm, color, 110min. (20min.)
Opening Film, 4th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2003, Korea)
47th London Film Festival (2003, UK)
Special Mention, NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema), 8th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2003, Korea)
27th Göteborg Film Festival (2004, Sweden)
2007 [Forever the Moment] 35mm, color, 124min.
10th Women’s International Film Festival in Seoul (2008, Korea)
13th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2008, Korea)
Best Film Award, Blue Dragon Awards (2008, Korea)
Udine’s Far East Film Festival (2008, Italy)
13th Aichi International Women's Film Festival (2008, Japan)
2009 [Fly Penguin] 35mm, color, 110min.
23rd Tokyo International Women’s Film Festival (2010, Japan)
12th Seoul International Youth Film Festival (2010, Korea)
6th Riverside International Film Festival (2010, USA)
8th Festival of Korean Cinema In Italy (2010, Italy)
3rd Chennai Women's Film Festival (2010, India)
15th Lyon Asian Film Festival (2009, France)
14th Aichi International Women's Film Festival (2009, Japan)
Cinema Digital Seoul 2009_Film Festival (2009, Korea)
10th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2009, Korea)
2010 [ Rolling Home with a Bull] 35mm, color, 106min.
15th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2010, Korea)
Staff
Director/screenwriter : YIM Soon-rye
Production : National Human Rights Commission of Korea
World Sales : INDIETORY Inc.
Associated Production : Bori Pictures
Executive Producer : NAM Kyu-sun
Producer : YANG Dong-myung
Cinematography : PARK Young-joon
Editor : PARK Kyoung-sook
Gaffer : ONG Kyoung-ae
Production Designer : PARK Sung-young
Composer : YOON Min-wha
Recording :HAN Chul-hee
Mixing : SUNG Yun-yong, LEE In-kyu
Costumes : YANG Min-hye
Make-up : LEE Jin-young
Cast
MOON So-ri as SONG Hee-jung
PARK Won-sang as Hee-jung’s husband
CHOI Kyu-hwan as LEE Ju-hun
SON Byung-ho as Mr. KWON
JUNG Hye-sun as Mrs. KWON
PARK In-hwan as Mr. KWON
