Kim Seung-woo was born in Chuncheon and studied dramaturgy at Chung-Ang University in Seoul. He worked on the films "Traces of Love" (06) and "Secret Sunshine" (07). "Bring Me Home" is his debut feature film.
Critique
A great return that of Lee Young-ae, unforgettable interpreter of "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" by Park Chan-wook (2005), after 14 years of absence from the big screen. The role is again that of a mother, this time more mature and inserted in a cruel context such as that of "Lady Vendetta", but dramatically more plausible. A powerful film, written and directed by a first-time author, which celebrates the courage and determination of a woman, but which also highlights a gray area, namely that suspended time that a family faces when a child is declared missing. You are still a parent (perhaps more than ever) and, like Jung-yeon and her husband, you keep busy by continuing to live with the unshakable faith that something will happen. Kim Seung-woo's authorial approach is essential and rigorous in telling the depths of human cruelty, while the cinematography of veteran Lee Mo-gae ("I Saw the Devil", "A Tale of Two Sisters") makes the fishing village where Jung-yeon goes to look for his child, a sinister frontier place with an atmosphere almost like a western film.
