South Korean auteur behind 'Oldboy' returns with 'pure' love story

'Decision To Leave' is a restrained yet deeply emotional love story. Photo: Handout

IndieWire has called it"the most romantic movie of the year ", while early reviews praised it as a gorgeously rendered love story marked by elegance and restraint. "I wanted to make a film that's pure – pure in the sense that it is faithful to the basics of cinema as an art form while no elements other than the theme of love get in the way," he said.

One such director, Bong Joon-ho, became the first South Korean to win the top Palme d'Or prize at Cannes for his dark comedyWhile Park believes he has always directed his movies for the general public, he recognises that"South Korean films, Asian films and foreign films are still being consumed as arthouse cinema" outside the region.

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