Mom, the Star, and the Sea Anemone (1995)

Original title

말미잘

Directed by

Yu Hyun-mok

Genre

drama film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 53m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman lives with her mother on a remote island, waiting for her father who never returned from the sea. Her quiet life is disturbed when a male boarder arrives and begins a romantic relationship with her mother, making her fear losing the only parent she has left.

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What happens

Malmijal (, littéralement « anémone de mer ») est un film sud-coréen réalisé par Yu Hyǒn-mok, sorti en 1995. Soo-yeong vit avec sa mère sur une île et attend le retour de son père qui est « parti en mer et pas encore revenu ». Un jour, M. Dok-go arrive en pension sur l'île et Soo-yeong craint de perdre sa mère quand elle le voit l'embrasser. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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