La Gruyere | A sobriety going against the story

Saturday cinema
PAR ANGIE DAFFLON

WINTER IN SOKCHO. He chose gentleness, sobriety and sensitivity. To feature a rough character and a torn protagonist. To address melancholy, abandonment or even the relationship with the body. To express themes not inclined to lightness.

Koya Kamura makes his first feature film with this first cinema adaptation of Winter in Sokcho. From the text by Elisa Shua Dusapin, he retained the search for the father, the quest for identity. After studying in Seoul, Soo-ha (Bella Kim) returns to Sokcho, a small port town near the border separating the two Koreas, where she works in a modest pension. His daily life is turned upside down when a designer from France, Kerrand (Roschdy Zem), arrives in search of inspiration. A…

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