DECISION TO LEAVE

HEOJIL KYOLSHIM

By Park CHAN-WOOK

SEMINCI - VALLADOLID INTL. FILM FEST. / FESTIVAL DE CINE DE VALLADOLID - as FEST

Thriller - Completed 2022

A Busan detective is increasingly obsessed with a murder suspect in a puzzling new case: a middle-aged businessman has mysteriously fallen to his death and his wife might be to blame. Park Chan-wook won the Cannes Best Director award for this twisting Hitchcockian detective thriller.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2022
Competition Prix de la Mise en Scène
Toronto - TIFF 2022
Special Presentations
New York FF 2022
Main slate
Busan IFF 2022
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    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Thriller, Romance, Drama
    • Countries
    • KOREA (South)
    • Languages
    • KOREAN
    • Duration
    • 138 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Park CHAN-WOOK
    • Synopsis
    • A man falls from a mountain peak to his death.
      The detective in charge, Hae-joon (PARK Hae-il),
      comes to meet the dead man's wife Seo-rae (TANG Wei).

      "I worry when he does not come back from a mountain,
      thinking he might die at last."

      Seo-rae does not show any signs of agitation at her husband's death.
      With her behavior so unlike that of a grieving relative, the police consider her a suspect.
      Hae-joon interrogates Seo-rae,
      and while observing her on stakeout,
      feels himself slowly developing an interest in her.

      Meanwhile the difficult-to-read Seo-rae,
      despite being suspected of a crime,
      acts boldly towards Hae-joon.

      A suspect who is hiding her true feelings.
      A detective who suspects and desires his suspect.
      Their Decision to Leave.