A Normal Family – Jin-Ho Hur, 116’ (Cor. Sul) – Drama – SR
March 2 • 7:00pm • Room 1
Two rich families. Two brothers who don’t like each other. One is a doctor, the other a lawyer. In the middle of them, a sick mother, a car accident, their sophisticated wives and their distant and violent teenage children. Tough choices follow. Keep the family united or duty? A portrait of modern Korean society, growing colder and much more dangerous. Selection of the Toronto Festival.
Jin-Ho Hur
Director was born in 1963 and graduated from the Academy of Film Arts. His first short “For Kochal” was selected for the Vancouver Film Festival. With a common theme, Love, and now with 16 international awards, among his features are “Christmas in August” (1998), screened in the Critics Week in Cannes, also selected by the Chicago Film Festival and winner of the FIPRESCI Prize in Pusan. Followed by “One Fine Spring” (2001), “April Snow” (2005) or “Good Rain Knows” (2009).
