Take a walk down memory lane with this 3-part film that beautifully portrays changes in the streets of Seoul through the chance encounters of a man and a woman over several years.
🎬 Main trailer (English subs):
🎬 What’s in This Title? post: cultureflipper.com/blog/mimang-what-s-in-this-title
The man, on his way to a painting class, gets off at the wrong bus stop. The woman, who is a film analyst, runs into him on her way to Seoul Theater. They catch up in a short conversation. Several years later when the theater is about to close down, the woman walks down the same street with someone else. More years pass, and the man, now an artist, sees the woman at a friend’s funeral, and they walk down the street together at night. Not much of a plot, you say? Exactly. In this promising directorial debut feature film that took four years to shoot, Kim Tae-yang takes viewers for a quiet stroll through the changing landscapes of Seoul streets and the characters’ lives. Kim prioritizes poetic tone over a hard plotline, intentionally harnessing sentimentality and nostalgia by withholding information about the characters. In fact, the “man” and the “woman” do not have names; they represent ordinary people experiencing the passage of time dappled with special moments of love, loss and reflection. We see them at three different times in their lives that match the three parts of the film, each exploring a different meaning of the word “mimang.”
