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Beautiful Days (film)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Beautiful Days
| image = Beautiful Days (film).jpg
| caption = Main poster
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| director = Jro Yun
| producer = Kim Hyun-woo
| writer = Jro Yun
| starring = Lee Na-young
Jang Dong-yoon
| music = Mathieu Regnault
| cinematography = Kim Jong-sun
| editing = Jro Yun
| studio = Peppermint & Company
| distributor = Smile Entertainment
Contents Panda
| released =
| runtime = 104 minutes
| country = South Korea
France
| language = Korean
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'Beautiful Days' is a 2018 South Korean drama film starring Lee Na-young, Jang Dong-yoon and Oh Kwang-rok. The film premiered as the opening film of the 23rd edition of the Busan International Film Festival on October 4, 2018. It was released in theaters on November 21, 2018.
Plot
The film follows the life of a North Korean defector who gives birth to a son at a young age and abandons her husband and child for a better life abroad. The hidden past is revealed after fourteen years when the grown-up son visits her.
Cast
*Lee Na-young as Mother
*Jang Dong-yoon as Zhen Chen
*Oh Kwang-rok as Zhen Chen's father
*Lee Yoo-jun as Pimp
*Seo Hyun-woo
*Lee Jung-joon
Production
'Beautiful Days' is director Jro Yun's debut feature film and lead actress Lee Na-young's first film in 5 years.
The film began production on October 31, 2017. Filming wrapped on November 26, 2017.
Reception
In 'Variety', Peter Debruge says, "Lee Na-young impresses as a North Korean woman tracked down by her long-since-abandoned son". Reviewing it for Screendaily, Wendy Ide noted the film as being structurally a little over-complicated, but still is an impressive drama which feels convincingly rooted in real lives and stories.
Clarence Tsui of 'The Hollywood Reporter' writes, "'Beautiful Days' certainly lives up to its title with its mesmerizing imagery and very polished production values. But it is weighed down by a clichd narrative and simplistic moral binaries".
References
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