Original title: 흉터 (Hyoong-tuh)
Year: 2011
Length: 65 min
Format: HD
Aspect: 2.35:1
Color/BW: Color

 

Second feature
Director: LIM Woo-seong
Cast: PARK So-yeon, JEONG Hee-tae
Genre: Drama
Release date: Oct. 13, 2011
International film festivals:
         2011 San Sebastian International Film Festival
Production:
         Film Art Invention
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A quiet and pensive illustrator with a strict upbringing, Seon-hee (Park) is married to the handsome primetime newscaster Sang-hyeob (Jeong), whose perfectionism covers deep-seated insecurities. Struggling with the lonely and solitary nature of her work, Seon-hee begins to turn further inward after discovering her husband’s affair with a young violinist. As her life turns increasing cold, her dreams become haunted by the grotesque face of the Child Buddha. Slowly Seon-hee realizes that even after wounds have healed, one cannot escape reminders of life’s traumas.

 

Lim Woo-seong directed the critically lauded <Vegetarian> (2009), which was screened at both the 2009 Busan International Film Festival and the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. <Vegetarian> and <Scars> are both adaptations of novellas by author HAN Kang. <Scars> made its world premiere in the Zabaltegi-New Directors section of the 2011 San Sebastian Film Festival