Alice In Earnestland (2015)

Original title

성실한 나라의 앨리스

Directed by

Ahn Gooc-jin

Genre

drama film, black comedy film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

19

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman struggles with financial hardship and dead-end jobs in South Korea. She tries to secure a stable life by helping a bedridden older man write his autobiography, which leads her into increasingly strange and dangerous situations.

darkly comictensebleakunsettlingfast-pacedabsurdcerebralcruel

What happens

Alice in Earnestland (Korean: 성실한 나라의 앨리스; RR: Seongsilhan naraui aelliseu) is a 2015 South Korean black comedy film written and directed by Ahn Gooc-jin, in his first feature film. It premiered at the 16th Jeonju International Film Festival where it received the Grand Prize in the Korean Competition; jury member and noted East Asian film critic Tony Rayns praised the film as "Funny, shocking and sometimes cruel, this film has enough invention and energy to take your breath away." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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