ASIA EXTREME - ALL FILMS
Acacia
Ki-hyeong Park, Director
2003
103
Color
Korean filmmaker Ki-Hyung Park (WHISPERING CORRIDORS) serves up an unsettling tale of muted dread about a childless couple's attempts to forge a family. Despite her mother's disapproval, Mi-sook (Hye-jin Shim) and her husband (Jin-geun Kim) adopt Jin-seong (Oh-bin Mun), a quiet, artistic six-year-old boy. Soon Jin-seong evinces an obsessive attraction to a dying acacia tree in the backyard, which he associates with his birth mother. Yet even more unsettling events are in store when Mi-sook unexpectedly becomes pregnant.
TAGS
| Child Murder, Adopted Son, Family, Pregnancy, Tree, Boy, Orphan |  |
SCREENINGS
CAST AND CREW:
| Director | Ki-hyeong Park |
| Screenwriter | Ki-hyeong Park |
| Cinematographer | Hyeon-je Oh |
| Editor | Seong-won Hang |
| Composer | Man-Sik Choi |
| Actor | Na-yoon Jeong |
| Actor | Jin-geun Kim |
| Actor | Oh-bin Mun |
| Actor | Hye-jin Shim |
