Country: South Korea
Directed by Lee Man-hee
One more jewel of the unknown South Korean cinema of 60's, 'A day off' depicts the bleak reality of the era (of every era?) when young people struggled to live, love and bloom under heavy financial hardships, to end up defeated and broken, without dreams and hopes, present or future. Lee Man-hee chooses to narrate a heartbreaking love story as a social commentary, not as a personal drama. The unhappiness here is not existential: poverty is clearly blamed. Moreover the misery is not attractive, shinny and almost glorified as we see often in other films. The despair here is naked and the feeling of hopelessness devastating
You can watch the full movie here: https://youtu.be/2f6eLMTooaM
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