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

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.

tragicdownward spiralmelancholicreflectivebleakslow-burnemotionally intensenostalgic

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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