Cinema
Lovers in Woomukbaemi
우묵배미의 사랑
Jang Sun-woo · 1990
Synopsis
Bae Il-do, a tailor from the countryside, leaves a dead-end shirt factory for a garment workshop in Umukbaemi, where he feels more at ease among the women workers than at home, with his partner and their child. There he notices Min Gong-rye, a shy worker whose husband beats her. She at first rejects his advances, then it is she who sets the pace of their affair, made up of meetings in a greenhouse, meals at restaurants and feeble excuses served up to their spouses.
Context
The film adapts a novel by Pak Yeong-han, according to the Korean Film Archive database, from a screenplay by Jang Sun-woo and Im Jong-jae; produced by Suh Byung-ki, photographed by You Young-gil and edited by Kim Hyeon, it was released on 31 March 1990. Park Joong-hoon plays Il-do, Choi Myung-gil plays Gong-rye and Yoo Hye-ri plays the companion. The same database notes the frankness of the love scenes, the first of them in an inn on the outskirts of Seoul, and a mixture of realism and melodrama. The Archive has issued it on Blu-ray with a commentary by the director.
Who it is for
A film of nearly two hours, rated for viewers over nineteen in Korea, between realism and melodrama.
Prizes and reception
Cineccentric compares the director's attention to working-class lives with that of the Briton Mike Leigh.
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