Bamui muni yeolrinda (2018)

Bamui muni yeolrinda: Directed by Eun-Jeong Yu. With So-Hyun Gam, Hae-in Han, Seung-Yi Hong, So-nee Jeon. Hye-jung works in a factory on the outskirts of the city. All she wants is to live alone in peace. One night, however, she finds she has become a ghost. As a ghost, she goes back in time, day by day, and tries to keep out of harm’s way.

“Ghost Walk or u0026quot;The Door of the Night Opensu0026quot; is a slow-burning, moody piece of fantasy thatu0026#39;s rooted to modern-day issues like urban alienation and unfulfilled personal dreams in a capitalist age. Hae-in Han efficiently plays the apathetic, depressed, loner protagonist who becomes an invisible, wandering ghost after her death. She finds out that although in life she tried to maintain a lonely existence disconnected from others, her death on the other hand is but a piece of a larger social phenomenon. First-time director Yu Eun-jeong did a commendable job building a quiet, contemplative atmosphere. Almost nothing in this film – cinematography, music, pacing – tries to impose itself, but they effectively add substance to the storytelling. The first-person narration sometimes feels patchy – too introspective in some places or too barren, generic in some others. The final act, although predictable, does well enough to establish itself as a piece of serious cinema, and not some emotional tearjerker that films with similar plotlines often turn into.”