Kim Ki-duk : 2005
Hwal
On an old fishing vessel that is permanently anchored offshore, a sixty-year-old man has raised a young girl since she was just a baby. Living a sheltered life, they earn a living by bringing local fisherman to fish from their boat and spend their time performing divination ceremonies. The girl is now approaching her seventeenth birthday, the age at which she has agreed to marry her companion. They live happily together until the day a teenage student comes to the boat and the girl's life is thrown into chaos. She is immediately attracted to him and when the young man discovers that she was abducted at the age of six and knows nothing of the world, he returns to the vessel to take the girl back to her parents. Kim Ki-duk's captivating and beautifully shot feature was winner of the Audience Award at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2005.
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