Synopse

In the taxi back after visiting the famous Buddhist temple of Cheongpyeongsa in the South Korean town Chuncheon, which they had also visited 30 years ago at the start of their relationship a middle-aged woman tells her husband shes lost her mobile phone. He reluctantly asks the taxi driver to turn back. What follows is a long, ice-cold, alcohol-fuelled night in which the couple both separately and together have a series of sobering, confrontational and disillusioning encounters set against waterfalls and neon-lit snow landscapes. The woman shares her sorrow with a young couple, whose budding love looks very much like theirs thirty years ago.

The young South Korean director Jang Woojin captures the languishing love of disillusioned fifty-somethings Eun-ju (Seo Young-hwa) and Heung-ju (Yang Heung-ju) in very precise shots. With the charming, melancholy and meditative Winters Night, he thoroughly realises the promise of A Fresh Start (2014) and Autumn, Autumn (2016)

Regie

JANG WOO-JIN (*1985) studied film and with his first two films won prizes at the festivals in Jeonju and Busan. His third full-length feature Winter‘s Night won the prize for best direction.

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