Two gentlemen meet by chance and decide to go on an adventure together. Their journey becomes a quest for happiness.
Acting
Choi Min-sik's weary gravitas meets Park Hae-il's chaotic desperation.
Direction
Im Sang-soo pivots from erotic provocateur to tender humanist.
Cinematography
Korean landscapes become metaphors for liminal spaces.
Director
Im Sang-soo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Im Sang-soo made his name with sexually explicit satires like 'The Housemaid' and 'The Taste of Money'—this marked a dramatic tonal shift toward humanist drama, confusing critics who expected provocation.
The film premiered at Cannes 2021 during the pandemic, with Im Sang-soo quipping that making a film about terminal patients escaping isolation felt accidentally autobiographical for the locked-down world.
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