Address Unknown

Address Unknown is a painful and tragic story about love and compassion, and takes place in the Korean village Pyongteak. At the center of the story stands Chang-Guk, who desperatly seeks his American soldier father, but whose letters all return. Ji-Hum's father is a disabled Korean War veteran, and Eun-Ok has lost her father in the war as well as her right eye in a foolish child's game. Even if they are children, all of them are disabled veterans from a war that supposedly ended more than 50 years ago.

Kim Ki-Duk uses cold and raw violence, never forced but instead anxious and important. The sensual pictures, the naked realism and sometimes vulgar imagery, accompanied by a bittersweet Satie piano, makes the viewer's thoughts travel to as different places as the universes of Mike Leigh, Luis Buñuel and Hirokazu Kore-Eda.

Patrik Lindgren

Premiärstatus
Nordisk premiär: Orig. titel
Soochiwin Bulmyung: Medverkande
Dong-Kun Yang, Min-Jung Ban, Young-Min Kim: Producent
Seung-Jae Lee: Manus
Ki-Duk Kim: Foto
Suh Jong-Min: Musik
Ho-Joon Park: Talat språk
Korean