Mimang

• Kim Taeyang
• 92 min
• South Korea
• 2023
• Fiction

A man and a woman meet at a traffic light. Obviously, they are acquainted from before, but it's been a long time since they last met. They talk about all the mundane things. Everything is very close.

By using a telephoto lens, Kim Taeyang successfully brings us close to the man and the woman while still including Seoul itself as an important character. The couple engages in a captivating conversation about love, careers, and the places in the city that pass by. Another time, they meet at a mutual acquaintance's funeral. The remarkable thing about Mimang is that even though the film is filled with dialogue, it is the image that takes command. The Korean word 'mimang' has several meanings, and among them, it can mean precisely this: that something is difficult to describe in words. This is a debut film where the director already fully masters his visual expression.

- Freddy Olsson

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