2012 · fantasy · romance · korean
A Werewolf Boy
Directed by Jo Sung-hee2h 2m2012
An unexpected phone call brings an elderly woman to her childhood country cottage, and memories of an orphan boy she knew 47 years ago come flooding back to her.
Our read: A Werewolf Boy (2012) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive fantasy · romance · korean entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured fantasy / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- tender
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