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Black Stone (film)

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Black Stone
블랙스톤
Directed byRoh Gyeong-tae
Written byRoh Gyeong-tae
Produced byAntonin Dedet
StarringWon Tae-hee
Kate Velarde
Erlinda Villalobos
Son Suk-ku
CinematographyCho Young Sang
Edited byChoi Hyun Sook
Music byOlivier Alary
Production
companies
Neon Productions
Teddy Bear Films Company
Distributed byOutplay (worldwide)
Teddy Bear Films Company (South Korea)
Release dates
  • 23 January 2015 (2015-01-23) (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
  • 28 March 2016 (2016-03-28) (South Korea)
Running time
93 minutes
CountrySouth Korea/France
LanguageKorean

Black Stone (Korean블랙스톤) is a 2015 South Korean—French film about a young South Korean army recruit who deserts the military after facing sexual abuse.[1] It stars the South Korean actor Won Tae-hee, who is shown in brief full-frontal nudity.[2]

Plot

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Black Stone tells the story of a deserting army recruit who returns to his parents' home in Seoul, where they worked in a food processing factory, to find they have disappeared. Intent on discovering[3] where they have gone, he enters the jungle where his father was born, and finds it to be contaminated.[1] The film is the last part of a trilogy about environmental pollution, inspired by the French film director Robert Bresson and the Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Black Stone". Letterboxd.com. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Black Stone". IMDB. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Black Stone Movie". smartopt.org. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
  4. ^ "Black Stone". International Film Festival. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
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