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Original Film Title: TALKING TO MOON AND BAEK
Director’s Name: Francheska Dyne Hong
Writer’s Name: Francheska Dyne Hong
Producer:βFrancheska Dyne Hong, Haneul Nancy Lee
Country of Origin:βKorea, Republic of
Country of Filming : Korea, Republic of
Language: Korean
Runtime: 38 minutes
Film Description:
“Only four calls,” He says. “Starts at 11:11 ending exactly at midnight. Just 49 minutes. No more, no less.” And they say, be very careful what you wish for.
Once upon a time, there lived an orphaned girl named Moon Su-Bin in the pulsating heart of Seoul city. At first glance, she seems like a fine young lady – that is, until you discover her gadgets and costumes. What on earth are those for?
She roleplays for 3D clients. Now, before your mind wanders into places we shouldn’t, her clients are Daily, Decent, and emotionally Desperate, grasping for a “lifeline” through her landline. Yet, beneath her empathetic faΓ§ade for fast cash, she too has desperately latched onto her fairytale dream of escaping to Denmark, her Copen-“heaven” (which she proudly mispronounces) – the “happily-ever-after”.
One exhaustive day, her wish finally seems to come true. Her knight in shining armor in a form of huge cash from a destined-to-die young man with terminal cancer who desires to rehearse unsaid goodbyes to his lover as the end nears.
Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, even life and death, so begins the most unlikely union of the two: the emotionally impaired and the emotionally exhausted, talking talk to Moon and Baek, through the four phone calls.