About This Film
Winner of the Baeksang award for Best Film and by the Korean Association of Film Critics for Best Actor, “Village of Haze” (aka “Village in the Mist”) is a great sample of the legendary Im Kwon-taek’s contemporary filmography.
Synopsis
Betrothed Soo-ok leaves Seoul to teach at a remote village elementary school in the mountains. The village seems to be scarcely populated and the first person she meets is a rather unusual, ragtag man, who glances straight in her eyes with an audacity that makes her shiver. Soon she learns that his name is Kkae-cheol-i and that he is the only stranger in a clan village where everyone is related, and carry the same surname from their mother’s side. Furthermore, they consider him a cripple, lunatic and impotent, although Soo-ok soon begins having doubts about all three of his “capacities”. Her doubts take a much more solid shape when a man of the village beats Kkae-cheol-i because he had sex with his wife. Soon enough, a number of secrets, mostly of sexual nature, are revealed, and even Soo-ok, after her fiancée has failed to show up in the village as promised, does not succeed in staying out.