Hiver à Sokcho (2024)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 104 minuten
Alternative title: Winter in Sokcho
Country:
France
Directed by: Koya Kamura
Stars: Roschdy Zem, Bella Kim and Park Mi-hyeon
IMDb score:
6,8 (1.387)
Releasedate: 8 January 2025
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Hiver à Sokcho plot
Soo-Ha, 23, lives in Sokcho, a small coastal town in South Korea. There, she leads a routine life visiting her mother, a fishmonger, and her boyfriend Jun-oh, with whom she is in a relationship. The arrival of a Frenchman, Yan Kerrand, in the small boarding house where Soo-Ha works raises questions about her own identity and about her French father, about whom she knows almost nothing.
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Reviews & comments
Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Quite a pleasant calmly flowing South Korean film about a woman whose world is turned upside down when she meets a mysterious Frenchman in her boarding house. Beautiful authentic images do the rest. Actually I always have some doubts about films where everything is harmonious and for no apparent reason is turned upside down by a complete stranger. Only possible in films.
After all, there is nothing to indicate that Soo-Ha has to throw herself into a new adventure. Fortunately, it is not all Hollywood and the feel-good factor is not necessarily present. The film is based on the novel by Élisa Shua Dusapin, apparently not an unworthy book, but certainly not a bestseller. It is a story about identity and distorted self-images.
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 14596 messages
- 4552 votes
The stranger who enters a place and, through their arrival, acts like a stone in a still pond, causing ripples—a common theme you see often. Nevertheless, this film is enjoyable because of its calm form and restrained acting, which actually enhances the film's effectiveness. At the end, we're just as far along as we were at the beginning, and aside from Soo-Ya breaking up with her boyfriend (a good choice; it didn't work out for either of them, you can tell right away) and knowing a bit more about her father (but nothing really yet), you don't get the feeling that much else has changed. And secretly, that's quite nice. Visually very gray, but that bleakness is atmospheric and fits well, aside from the fact that I did like this grayness.
I don't really have much to complain about the film, except that it drags a bit at times and it also left me relatively cold, so a truly high score isn't possible. 3.5*.
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De filosoof
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- 2487 messages
- 1698 votes
The film isn't boring, but it also never becomes captivating: what keeps you watching is primarily the promise of something happening—right at the beginning, there's the suggestion that the French tourist is her father, and at the end, there's the suggestion that she's going to poison him—but ultimately, nothing happens. The film is also full of references—such as the analogy between the pain of Korean families being separated by the separation in North and South Korea and the pain of the father's disappearance to France—but ultimately, they lead nowhere, other than the young woman learning something about her past and possibly processing repressed emotions. It makes the film little more than one long anticlimax, and that's not what I like.
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