Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 341: Sat Dec 14

Mother and a Guest (Shin Sang-ok, 1961): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 12.40pm

This film, which also screens on December 1st, will be shown from an archive 35mm print. The prersentation is part of the Golden Age of Korean Films season at BFI Southbank.

BFI introduction:
Six-year-old Ok-hee lives with her widowed mother and stern grandmother-in-law in a rural village. When the kindly Mr. Han arrives to stay as a boarder, Ok-hee watches with curiosity and delight as feelings develop between her mother and the father figure she always longed for. Shin Sang-ok and his actor wife Choi Eun-hee were two key figures in the Golden Age. Mother and a Guest is considered among their finest achievements.

Here (and above) is an extract.

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