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april
16 - 23
2002

 
Vues d'en face - 2002    
Grenoble international gay and lesbian film festival    
     

    Les Films Sélectionnés

         

 

  1. Hush !
  2. Gelée précoce
  3. Cercle intime
  4. Raison de vivre
  5. Ami/amant
  6. Hey, Happy !
  7. La rage au coeur
  8. Que faisaient les femmes...
  9. Eban and Charley
  10. Etre et se vivre homo
  11. Venus boyz
  12. Lan Yu
  13. Histoire de courts...
  14. Better than chocolate
  15. Ce vieux rève qui bouge
  16. Tarik el Hob
  17. Memento mori
  18. Trembling before G-d
  19. Lola et Bilidikid
  20. Uttara


Memento mori

South Korea, 2001, VO French subtitles, 97'
 
 

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Min-ah discovers a scarlet covered diary as she is hurrying to school. She has a brief hallucinatory experience when she opens it, initiating a series of strange occurrences which eventually draw Min-ah into the eerie world of the diary.

In her desire to read more of the contents of the diary, Min-ah feigns an illness, getting permission to lie down in the school's clinic. There she witnesses the reunion of Hyo-shin and Shi-eun.

The day at the girls' high school is half over, and the students are preoccupied with the trauma of getting their physical checkups. Their hustle and bustle is abruptly interrupted by a sharp scream which announces Hyo-shin's death.

While various rumors surrounding this death spread throughout the school, Min-ah continues to follow the trails left behind in the diary's writings. And like the inscribed incantation, 'Memento Mori' suggests, she senses Hyo-shin's ghostly entity which seems to linger in every corner of the girls' high school.

-'Memento Mori,' or, 'remember death' in Latin, is the incantation that sadly ordains a dead student's diary. The death of the girl who was neither child nor adult is recalled through this spiritual dialogue.-

 
Writer(s) : Kim Tae-yong, Min Kyo-dong
Director(s) : Kim Tae-yong, Min Kyo-dong
With : Park Yeh-Jin, Lee Young-Jin, Kim Min-Sun...
 

Distribution : AD VITAM

 

 

 

 

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