Woman in a light blue shirt lying with her head on her arms on a patterned brown sofa
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In - by Chris Cassingham

Measured Suspicion & Fervent Faith: Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine

The sun shines through a windshield. We see a blue sky speckled with blinding white clouds. If heaven exists, and it’s up there, it doesn’t look like a bad place to go. The eyes taking in this ethereal view belong to a young boy, Jun (Seon Jeong-yeop); the windshield belongs to his mother Shin-ae’s (Jeon Do-yeon) car, which has broken down on the side of the road on its way to Miryang, a small town near the southern coast of...

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