Il-gon Song - Git aka Feathers in the Wind (2004)

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The film opens with a monologue from a young film maker looking back on his first, lost love. Hey! Stop groaning! This is NOT one of those self indulgent “look at me I’m a tortured artist” films. Having just completed his first film, one he freely describes as mediocre, he is supposed to be preparing a draft of his next script. But, feeling restless and perhaps a little lost, he is instead on a boat, heading for a motel on a remote island where, ten years earlier, he once vacationed with his first girlfriend, now married and living in Germany. Why? At the time they swore to meet there again in ten years time and he is keeping that date knowing full well that she is not likely to turn up. The motel has only two other residents: an aspiring dancer fully ten years our director’s junior who does virtually all of the day to day work and her uncle, the motel’s owner who has been completely non-verbal since his wife left him without warning or explanation some years earlier. And that is basically the film: a man waiting for a past he knows will never return to him while building new relationships with the motel’s staff and generally not getting any work done.

What makes Git work so well is precisely the same thing that makes 3 Iron – a film very similar in tone – work. Song Il Gon understands that there is power in simplicity. His two primary leads turn in simply fantastic performances with looks and gestures loaded with just as much meaning as any of the dialogue. Song’s script is masterfully constructed with no waste whatsoever: every word, every image contributes to the overall effect. His remote island location is starkly beautiful and shot to great effect – there are more startlingly beautiful images than you can count – with occasional forays into the characters’ memories and dreams woven seamlessly in until the ‘real’ world is thoroughly infused with the possibility of the fantastic.