• Film

Oasis

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Time Out says

A hit in Korea and winner of the director's award at the 2002 Venice festival, this is a social commentary - and an awkward, even disturbing, but somehow charming love story about two anti-heroes: Jong-Du, a slightly retarded ex-con, and his love interest Gong-Ju, a woman with cerebral palsy. The relationship between these marginalised characters questions what constitutes desire. The camerawork enhances the claustrophobic feeling of living in an overcrowded city, of being different in a world that endorses homogeneity. And the metaphor of the oasis is used not as a serene place for refuge, but as an abnormal and misplaced phenomenon.

Release Details

  • Duration:132 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Lee Chang-Dong
  • Screenwriter:Lee Chang-Dong
  • Cast:
    • Sol Kyung-Gu
    • Moon So-Ri
    • Ahn Nae-Sang
    • Ryoo Seung-Wan
    • Chu Gui-Jeong
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