When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order to save her marriage, she finds her true self.
Acting
Farmiga does SO much with silence and trembling hands
Direction
Gina Kim frames desire like economic desperation
Cinematography
Cold Korean-American spaces vs. warm transactional intimacy
Director
Gina Kim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gina Kim deliberately cast Ha Jung-woo before his Korean stardom to emphasize his 'invisible immigrant' status to American audiences.
The film quietly inverts the 'white savior' trope—Sophie exploits Jihah's precarious immigration status, not the other way around.
KR
US
