Nobody's Daughter Haewon

• Jung Eun- chae: Haewon
• Lee Sunkyun: Haewons lecturer Lee Seong -jun
• Ye Jiwon: Haewons best friend Yeon -joo
• Kim Jaok: Haewons mother Jin -joo
• Yu Junsang: her husband, Jung- shik
• Jane Birkin: Herself

Nobody's Daughter Haewon ( Original title: 누구 의 딸 도 아닌 해원 Nugu -ui Ttal -do Anin Haewon ) is a feature film by South Korean director Hong Sang -soo from the year 2013 In the film it comes to the topics beauty, friendship, love and. relationship, which play a major role in the lives of student Haewon. The film plays with the levels of dream, rumor and reality.

Action

The student Haewon dreams of becoming a beauty queen, or at least to find a man. In dreams and in reality her path leads her again and again to the same places ( a bookstore, a park, a ruined fortress ), where it comes to an encounter with different people.

After their relationship is finished to a fellow student and her mother goes abroad, Haewon feels left alone. Now less arises for them the question, with whom she wants to have a relationship. With their teachers, with whom she had a long time ago a one -night stand and is inclined towards her, but not publicly available to her because he is married? Or rather with a divorced professor from America, whom she hardly knows? Or neither?

It remains open whether not everything we see in the film, only a dream.

Reviews

" The smooth change between bright and tense situations may correspond to the uncertain status of the respective sequences - what is dream, what is the present, what is memory - but anyway cause such allocations more in a maze as to the fair. Meaning and salvation is to lose yourself. Less Nobody's Daughter Haewon works as an episode or as a valve, but he is its sublimated form that enriches life, without making it forget the kidnapped without dispersing the attention. The film grows almost unnoticed, and it resonates. "

Background

The film premiered on February 15, 2013 the competition of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.