After taking 'Colony' to Cannes earlier this year, the Korean filmmaker discusses AI, grief and family, and why a tight budget and a short shoot sharpened his latest film.
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CJ ENM In Musan City, a decaying small town that exists only on screen, a grieving mother puts on a pair of AR glasses and spends time with her 10-year-old son. He has been gone for nine years, one of the children on a camp bus that vanished. Then the real boy comes home, grown up and a stranger, and the comfort the glasses offered starts to turn into something far more frightening.
That is the setup of “Paradise Lost,” the new psychological thriller from Yeon Sang-ho, the director of “Train to Busan” and the series “Hellbound.” It sits at the opposite end of the scale from “Colony,” which Yeon premiered in the Midnight Screenings section at Cannes earlier this year. “Paradise Lost” went on to Toronto’s Special Presentations section, where Yeon had also taken last year’s micro-budget “The Ugly,” and then screened as a Gala Presentation in Busan. Screenings sold out at both festivals.
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