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A reporter investigates a case in which a Korean woman, who has been living in Europe since she was 3 years old, is accused of murdering her adopted father. This is complicated by the fact that she is suffering from traumatic memory loss.
Berlin Report
1991 ‘베를린 리포트’ Directed by Park Kwang-su
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08 Jun 1991
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Park Kwang-su’s third film is his first failure. Park’s greatest strength as a director is evoking a sense of time and place – this, more than anything else, animates both Chilsu and Mansu and The Black Republic – while story is his weak point. With the end of the Cold War, epitomised by the fall of the Berlin Wall, he certainly zeroes in on a zeitgeist with Berlin Report; the film is, in a way, recording history in near-real time. But geographically, the director is adrift in Paris and Berlin, and the script is the most plot-driven of his career, instigated by the murder of a Korean adoptee’s abusive stepfather.
That’s not an unpromising premise, by any means, and Berlin…