Originally published May 11, 2022. Updated September 17, 2022.
It has been six long years since a Park Chan-wook film last graced the big-screen with 2016’s five-star epic The Handmaiden, but now the Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and Stoker director is about to drop Decision to Leave at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Starring Park Hae-il (Memories of Murder) and Tang Wei (Lust, Caution) the film charts the aftermath of a man falling from a mountain peak to his death. The detective in charge of the investigation comes to meet the dead man’s wife. When she becomes a suspect, he finds himself slowly developing an interest in her; check out the trailer below….
A detective investigating a man’s death in the mountains meets the dead man’s mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
Decision to Leave will receive a theatrical and streaming release via Mubi sometime in late 2022.
