Samaritan Girl(Samaria)
Dir: Kim Ki-duk
South Korea, 2004, Korean, 97mins, 35mm
Cast: Lee Eol, Kwak Ji-min, Han Yeo-reum
To earn air tickets to Europe, two schoolgirls take up prostitution. When the blissful hooker, who identifies herself with Vasumitra in sexuality’s nurturing, dies in a police raid, her soulmate-cum-manager starts having sex with their former clients to pay back the money. Her search for self-atonement descends into violence as her doting father, a widower cop, decides to hunt down the men to save his daughter. A grotesque parody contrived to sanitise and/or deplore teenage prostitution, Kim’s dichotomous exploration of the madonna-whore complex won him his first Best Director at Berlinale.
Berlin International Film Festival: Silver Bear for Best Director
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Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
Tai Kwun
Chinese Subtitles
Full House
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