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Eyelids

2018 · 85 min

A quiet, ritualistic meditation on death and consolation, slow and spare, leaving a heavy but tender ache.

Directed by: O Muel
Genres: Drama
Starring: Moon Suk-bum, Lee Sang-hee, Sung Min-chul

Overview: An old man living on the island of Mireukdo lives a self-sufficient life, adhering to ascetic principles typical of a monk. Now and then the phone rings and shortly thereafter a visitor arrives; the old man dutifully prepares rice cakes for them. The cakes are the last meal these visitors will eat before embarking on the seemingly long journey to the next world. The first to arrive is an angler, then a rat, and the last a teacher and two students.

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Directed by: O Muel
Genres: Drama
Starring: Moon Suk-bum, Lee Sang-hee, Sung Min-chul

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: death
grief
isolation
faith
healing
Places: countryside
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	0
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	0
Tension	3
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	9

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