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Drama Film
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Wangsimni, My Hometown

May 26

At Film at Lincoln Center - Walter Reade Theater

Upper West Side, New York

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Im Kwon-taek's 1976 film captures Seoul's Wangsimni neighborhood during the development boom, as a returning exile finds his hometown unrecognizable and his love married to another. Shot with documentary precision, this melancholy time-capsule marks the director's pivotal shift toward visual storytelling over dialogue.

1970s Korean cinema
Im Kwon-taek
art house film
Seoul development boom

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