Stateless Things crosscuts between the lives of two young men, one an illegal immigrant from North Korea stuck in dead-end jobs, the other the kept boy of a married businessman stifling in a swanky apartment.
Direction
Kim Kyung-mook's surgical eye for urban alienation.
Acting
Yeom Hyun-joon's suffocated stillness, unforgettable.
Director
Kim Kyung-mook
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during a wave of queer Korean indie cinema that rejected BL commercialism for working-class brutality. Kim Kyung-mook was only 28.
The title's Korean word '줄탁' (Jultak) refers to a spark from striking flint — two hard things hitting, briefly lit, then nothing.
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