Next Sohee (2023)

Original title

다음 소희

Directed by

July Jung

Genre

drama film, police film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

2h 18m

Rated

TP

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 138 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A high school student named Sohee is placed in a call center training program. After her death, a detective investigates what happened to her.

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What happens

Next Sohee (Korean: 다음 소희) is a 2022 South Korean drama film, directed by Jung Ju-ri and starring Bae Doona and Kim Si-eun. The film revolves around a business-oriented high school student, Sohee (Kim Si-eun), who has to go on field training to her call center, and a female detective, Yu-jin, who investigates her subsequent death. It is loosely inspired by the real-life suicide of a girl on a similar temporary training program. It was selected as the first Korean closing film at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and screened as part of the Critics' Week section for special screenings. The film was screened on May 25, 2022 at Espace Miramar in Cannes and received a 7 minute standing ovation. It was also screened at the 26th Fantasia International Film Festival as the closing film and won the Best Director award in the Cheval Noir competition category and the Best Asian Feature silver award in the Audience Award category. It was released on February 8, 2023 in South Korea. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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