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"Peppermint Candy"
2000
Directed by Lee Chang-dong

A remarkable dissection of despair, Peppermint Candy uses a reverse chronology to chronicle a man's deterioration from innocent, idealistic youth to callous, cynical middle age. "...poses troubling questions on the inevitable erosion of humanity in the face of destiny, doubling as both a devastating character study and a scathing indictment of a generation's betrayal at the hands of its own society" (Jason Ankeny, Film Threat). Korean with English subtitles. 127 minutes.