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The Woman

2020 · 83 min

A quiet, unhurried portrait of endurance in a harsh landscape, carrying a steady weight of loneliness and duty.

Directed by
Otgonzorig Batchuluun
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ahn Jae-mo, Enkhtuwshin Baljaa, Borkhuu Tangad
Overview
In a remote Mongolian mountains, a woman lives with her mother-in-law and her daughter. Everyone has deserted them except for the people she looks after. Time to time a local man comes and helps her to do her difficult tasks and always asks her to move to the nearest town with him. Her hands are tied to the place, since her mother-in-law wouldn't be able to get accustomed to the town lifestyle.

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Directed by
Otgonzorig Batchuluun
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ahn Jae-mo, Enkhtuwshin Baljaa, Borkhuu Tangad
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • family
  • survival
  • parenthood
  • deception
Places
  • countryside
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Otgonzorig Batchuluun
Written by
Boldbaatar Batmunkh
Starring
Ahn Jae-mo, Enkhtuwshin Baljaa, Borkhuu Tangad, Undral Choimpog, Battumur Dorj, Tselmuun Khurelbaatar, Dagvadorj Munkhsaikhan
Runtime
83 min
Country
Mongolia
Languages
Mongolian

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