Secret Sunshine

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2hrs 22min
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2007
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Panorama
Synopsis: In this somber Korean drama, a young mother and widow, Shin-ae, moves with her young son, Jun, from Seoul to a small town called Miryang following her husband's death. Having given up on her career as a concert pianist when she married her husband, she starts up a piano school, but soon it begins to feel like the polite people who inhabit her new home aren't as friendly as they seem on the surface. Judgmental whispers and disapproving gossip begin to reach Shin-ae's ears, and pressure to join the ... Full Synopsis
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Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine is reminiscent of the melodramas of Lars Von Trier: an intense long-form character study with a novelistic sense of shifting form in a dark, almost cynical tale of awakening. It opens with Lee Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon) lost in her car on the outskirts of Miryang, a Korean town whose name means "Secret Sunshine." She is rescued by bumbling mechanic Kim Jong-chan (Song Kang-ho) ... Full Review
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