Late Spring(Keun-Hyun Cho,2014):USA,KOREA

Reviewed by Felice Larsson, Santa Barbara Film Festival 2014.

This movie by director Keun-Hyun Cho is just breathtaking. I went in to the cinema with very low expectation and wow what I had wrong.

This is a story that presents around world war two in South Korea and it’s about this brilliant man and artist that makes sculptures that’s diagnosed with a progressive disorder that eventually gonna get him a total paralysis of his body. His beloved and caring wife is so afraid of him getting depressed that he can’t work so she goes out to find someone that can inspire him to continue his work. She find this struggling mother that lost her husband in the war and that gets beaten and raped by her new awful aggressive husband. She accepts the work offer as an nude model for the artist and this is the beginning of a incredible journey.

This movie is so beautiful that I didn’t wanna miss a second of it. How the director  use the camera to focus on details, the lightning,coloring,the wonderful music that plays. Not only just that, The actors performances  is just beyond great. I also loved to see the Korean environment and that you really saw whats going on at that time.