2019 · drama · comedy
Lucky Chan-sil
Directed by Kim Cho-hee1h 36m2019
With the death of her long-time director, Chan-sil, a film producer, is now unemployed. While working as a cleaning lady at an actress' house, she meets a young man. Attracted to him, Chan-sil realises old anxieties are about to emerge: her already gone-youth, messed-up love life, and broken career.
Our read: Lucky Chan-sil (2019) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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