Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 322: Mon Nov 25

 Mist (Kim Soo-yong, 1967): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6.20pm

This film is part of the Golden Age of Korean Films season.

BFI introductionA middle-class office worker takes a trip back to his rural hometown, where memories of his troubled past and an intimate encounter with a local schoolteacher stir up complex feelings. Kim Soo-yong’s magnum opus, Mist employs atmospheric cinematography to create a melancholy mood, while the natural chemistry between Shin Seong-il and Yoon Jeong-hee, who is best known internationally for her work in Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry, heightens the drama’s emotional heft.

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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