Movie

Breath

2007 · 84 min

A quiet, melancholic plunge into loneliness and strange intimacy, where silence and small gestures carry heavy emotional weight.

Tagline: Love Can Take Your Breath Away.
Overview: A condemned prisoner slowly falls in love with the married female artist who decorates his prison cell. Jin is a convicted killer awaiting execution on Death Row; Yeon is a lonely artist locked in a loveless marriage.
How it feels: Melancholic, dark, romantic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, love, obsession, death
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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: isolation
love
obsession
death
betrayal
Places: prison
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild