The Center for Korean Studies fall film series features a screening of Miss Granny (수ìƒí•œ 그녀), a 2014 film directed by Hwang Donghyuk. The fall series, "Late Blossoms: Old Age in Korean Cinema," offers recent films with an upbeat take on old age. In Miss Granny, the central character is a seventy-four-year-old widow living with her son and his family. She has a difficult relationship with her daughter-in-law, but is proud of her son, whom she reared by herself. On the day her son tells her she will be sent to a nursing home, she wanders the streets in distress and comes across a mysterious photo studio claiming to capture one’s youth. She has her photo taken, thinking it will be her last portrait for her funeral, but as she leaves the studio, she is dumbfounded by her reflection in a mirror. Now a fresh, twenty-year-old woman, she hides from her family and changes her name.
Event Sponsor
Center for Korean Studies, Mānoa Campus
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Merclyn Labuguen, 956-7041, merclyn@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/
Tuesday, November 1 |
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| 8:00am |
Blood Drive Mānoa Campus, Executive Dining Hall at Campus Center
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| 12:00pm |
Linguistics Seminar Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
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| 1:30pm |
International Language Exchange Mānoa Campus, Krauss 012
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| 2:00pm |
Learning Design and Technology Final Oral Mānoa Campus, Wist 234
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| 3:00pm |
Serve the People Mānoa Campus, George 301
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| 6:15pm |
Miss Granny Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies
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