On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard.
Cinematography
The boat becomes a universe; every frame aches.
Direction
Kim Ki-duk: 90 minutes, barely any dialogue, maximum unease.
Acting
Han Yeo-reum's eyes do what the script refuses to say.
Director
Kim Ki-duk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kim Ki-duk claimed he wrote this in two days after a dream about a bow. The entire film was shot on a single rented boat in two weeks.
The 'divination by bow' scenes required Han Yeo-reum to be suspended over water for hours; her terror is partly genuine. The Cannes audience reportedly sat in stunned silence through the credits.
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