Secret Sunshine
Emotion Pictures: International Melodrama
December 13, 2017 - January 7, 2018
Lee Chang-dong’s stunning saga of grief and catharsis is built around a mesmerizing central performance from Jeon Do-yeon (Best Actress, Cannes Film Festival) as a woman searching for reconciliation in the wake of a life-shattering tragedy.
Lee Chang-dong’s stunning saga of grief and catharsis is built around a fearless central performance from Jeon Do-yeon (Best Actress, Cannes Film Festival)—one of the most wrenching and mesmerizing tour de forces since Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence. She plays socially awkward piano teacher who, with her young son, relocates from Seoul to her late husband’s hometown of Milyang for a fresh start. But another unthinkable tragedy soon sends her into an emotional tailspin and a desperate quest for reconciliation. While it plumbs universal questions of faith and forgiveness, Secret Sunshine is never less than personal in its portrait of a woman picking up the pieces of her life.
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