Chorokbam
초록밤 | South Korea | 2021
Midwest Premiere
South Korea | Drama | 2021 | 89 minutes | in Korean w/English subtitles
Director: Yoon Seo-jin
Starring: Lee Tae-hoon, Kim Min-kyung, Kang Gil-woo
Film Source: M-Line Distribution
Winner of 26th Busan International Film Festival - Vision - CGV Arthouse Award
Please stay for a post-film discussion led by professor Ron Falzone – an award-winning screenwriter and Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago as well as an Instructor in film comedy at Second City Film School.
In-Cinema Screening
Saturday, Oct 1 at 2:30 PM
@ AMC Niles 12
SYNOPSIS
When the curtain of the green night rises, we will watch a fraction of one family’s drama.
“Chorokbam—“Green night.” The night of envy. Or is it fate? A night guard discovers a dead cat hanging by its neck during one of his shifts. As if struck by a vision of things to come, a bad omen, his familial life starts crumbling. His overworked wife grows further exasperated and their son, working as social worker, barely makes ends meet. As if cursed, or predetermined, the death of a relative begins an unraveling of buried family secrets.
Winner of the CGV Arthouse Award at the latest Busan International Film Festival and perhaps best described as an existential horror film by way of “slow cinema” reminiscent of masters such as Tsai Ming Liang and Roy Andersson, Yoon Seo-jin’s deliberate debut CHOROKBAM is a stunning family snapshot that turns the month-to-month life of an ordinary family into an injustice of nearly cosmic proportions. Parable for a vanishing middle class, perhaps, or a simply cathartic vision of doom, Yoon’s slow-burner tour-de-force is suffused with a foreboding, suffocating atmosphere of dread and a disquieting sense of mise-en-scène — amounting to a potent visualization of anxiety, grief, and depression as it permeates and obliterates one’s worldview. Yet it is also a rare, macabre movie that finds, in its heart, the ability to be overwhelmingly beautiful, every single frame a revelatory experience for those willing to look into its dark abyss.”—Ariel Esteban Cayer, Fantasia 2022
STILL GALLERY
TRAILER
DIRECTOR
Yoon Seo-jin
Yoon Seo-jin was born in South Korea. His film Cicada was invited to the Korean Competition at the Busan International Short Film Festival 2019. Chorokbam is Yoon Seo-jin′s first feature film.
Director’s Filmography:
2019 - CICADA - 19min / HD / B&W
2021 - CHOROKBAM - 89min / HD / COLOR
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