Paju

Paju

So close to want but forbidden to love.

2009112 min5.8 / 10

A melancholic, introspective meditation on forbidden desire and the passage of time, told through a woman's retrospective gaze on eight years of longing in a small border town.

A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.

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