Born in 1986, he specialized in cinema at university. He has directed several short films including "Dreaming, Child" (2015), and "Birds Fly Back to the Nest" (2016) which won a Special Jury Prize at the Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival and was also invited to the Tampere International Short Film Festival. "Move the Grave" is his first feature film and was presented at the New York Asian Film Festival.
Critique
Korean cinema aimed at the general public is increasingly pushed towards the fascinating plots of the thriller, and it is here that independent cinema makes its timid intervention, telling the public about their reality, without convoluted action nuances or captivating music; "Move to Grave" perfectly tells what Korea is today; made up of generational clashes, economic and family problems. Through the 'road trip' we move from the busy city to the quieter countryside together with the protagonists, facing that cathartic journey with them, we reflect on the small and large problems that grip us every day. The three sisters and brother protagonists, children of a post-war generation and linked to traditions, collide with the reality of their stressful and hectic lives as each of us would. Jeong Seung-o, through satire, highlights a series of problems in contemporary Korean society. The most obvious are those concerning the status of women, the clash between tradition and progress, and the bonds that make up a family. Overturning the traditional dictates of the Korean family where the man commands and the woman watches in silence, the personalities of the sisters dominate that of the brother. The five brothers, with their load of problems, do not solve everything by meeting but find a family complicity that they had lost.
You don't have to like each other temperamentally to love each other and be a real family.
