Peppermint Candy (2000)
- Original title
- 박하사탕
- Directed by
- Lee Chang-dong
- Genre
- drama film, fiction film
- Country
- South Korea
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Rated
- MA 15+
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 293 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man's life is shown in reverse from his suicide back through 20 years of events. The story examines how historical and personal pressures shaped his downfall.
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What happens
Peppermint Candy (Korean: 박하사탕; RR: Bakhasatang) is a 1999 South Korean tragedy film by Lee Chang-dong. The film opens with the suicide of the protagonist and uses reverse chronology to depict some of the key events of the past 20 years of his life that led to this point. It was the ninth-highest-grossing domestic film of 2000 with 311,000 admissions in Seoul. It was well-received, especially at film festivals. Spurred by the success of Lee Chang-dong's directorial debut, Green Fish, Peppermint Candy was chosen as the opening film for the Busan International Film Festival in its first showing in 1999. It won multiple awards at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won the Grand Bell Awards for best film of 2000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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