The Power of Kangwon Province

The Power of Kangwon Province (강원도의 힘, Gangwon-do ui him) is the second film by South Korean director Hong Sang-soo. It follows the lives of a man and a woman who have decided to end their affair. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

The Power of Kangwon Province
Theatrical poster
Hangul
Hanja의 힘
Revised RomanizationGangwon-do ui him
McCune–ReischauerKangwondoŭi him
Directed byHong Sang-soo
Written byHong Sang-soo
StarringBaek Jong-hak
Oh Yun-hong
Release date
  • 4 April 1998 (1998-04-04)
Running time
108 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean

Plot

Three young girls, Jisook, Misun and Eunkyoung take a trip to the mountainous Kangwon Province of South Korea. They meet a young policeman who shows them around and after a meal where they all get drunk together, Jisook ends up spending the night with the policeman. He is married, but Jisook returns another day to see him and they end up falling-over drunk again. Jisook has just broken up with another married man, and she is lonely and unhappy with her current situation.

The second half the film then follows the situation of Sangwon, the married man that Jisook has just broken up with. In a typically symmetrical fashion, after a repeat scene where it becomes apparent that both of them are on the same train, Sangwon also visits the Kangwon Province with a friend and the paths of the two characters cross without them ever meeting there, both of them encountering a couple involved in a murder investigation.

See also

References

  1. "Festival de Cannes: THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
  • Kim, Kyung-hyun (2004). "7. New Korean Cinema Auteurs: Too Early/Too Late: Temporality and Repetition in Hong Sang-su's Films: The Power of Kangwon Province". The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema. Durham and London: Duke University Press. pp. 217–223. ISBN 0-8223-3267-1.


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