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A South Korean Disaster Film Is Like ‘Earthquake’ Meets ‘Lord of the Flies’

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  • Festival 40
  • Director: Um Tae-hwa
  • 2023
  • 130 minutes
  • Korean
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Best Korean Film Award

Korea Oscar nominee

A massive earthquake has reduced the world to rubble. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins extend or what caused the earthquake, one apartment building remains standing in the heart of Seoul—the Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes and the cold weather sets in, strangers begin to arrive at the Hwang Gung Apartments, seeking shelter from the extreme cold.

Concrete Utopia, based on the second part of Kim Sung-nyung's Cheerful Outcast webtoon, fuses wry social critique with spectacular genre storytelling to create a sobering parable, where human kindness becomes the first casualty of social disorder.

Filmography: Vanishing Time (2016), Ingtoogi (2013).

 

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  • Director Um Tae-hwa
  • Production Byun Seungmin
  • Script Lee Shin-ji, Um Tae-hw
  • Cinematography Cho Hyoung-rae
  • Editing Han Mee-yeon
  • Music Kim Hae-won
  • Festivals Toronto, Chicago
  • Actors Lee Byung-hun, Park Bo-young, Park Seo-jun
  • Source Lotte Entertainment