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14th DMZ Docs(2022)

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The Talent Show

LEE Sohyun

  • South Korea
  • 2022
  • 95min
  • G
  • DCP
  • color

Synopsis

Middle-aged women start acting at a later age and forms a troupe. But none of them are a fit for each other. However, they can¡¯t stop acting.

Review

Talent Show is a film depicting the process of preparing and touring the play "Talent Show" by mothers who have formed a theater troupe after losing their children during the Sewol Ferry disaster. This project is carried out in the context of visualizing the performance of mothers who are trying to achieve the dreams and aspirations of their children that have not been fulfilled. But in reality, it goes beyond the clichés of the victim's narrative and frankly reveals the aspirations of middle-aged women who are hiding behind the sorrow and mourning. Driven by a desire to become a protagonist and a desire for attention and recognition, these women become high school students practicing dance performances for a talent show on a school trip, eventually reviving their children's dreams and projecting their own aspirations. Which ones are for their children and which ones are for themselves? Following Dear Grandma(2015), director Lee So-hyeon tried to portray women beyond the name of "bereaved family" in scenes where the realism of their life and their acting in the play impressively harmonize. There are many documentaries about the Sewol ferry from various perspectives, but the film goes beyond the narrative of the victims and makes us think about the meaning of mourning and overcoming.

Director

  • LEE Sohyun

    Director Lee worked as a water purifier salesman, advertisement producer, NGO activist and sound recordist. After an accidental visit to Palestine, she became a documentary director. ​ 

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