The Last Dining Table

2006

Feature 7

Gyung-tae Roh | 2006 | Fiction | 35mm | Color | 91min

SYNOPSIS

In the film, several worlds exist such as a world where the main characters live, a world where the main characters look at, a world where the main characters dream, and a world where the other people live. Each thread of their stories develops independently, yet becomes intertwined towards the end as Daughter sells her body to Father in order to get the money to perform the surgery, and Grandmother finds Son to save her ideal man from the unlicensed prostitute quarters. When they have the last dinner in the end of the film, we finally recognize that the Father and Son are in one Family, and Grandmother, Mother, and Daughter are in another family

DIRECTING INTENTION

This film is just my personal story about irony and separation. This symbolically and poetically includes the irony and contradiction of modern society, the collapse of family’s value, and the global pollution. These social problems have been referred by my unique way through the lens of trivialism, surrealism, and minimalism in this film. Moreover, obscure acting style, surrealistic mise-en-scene, and desaturated color symbolize the contradiction and awkwardness of the human’s relationship, and the dystopian and decadent world. I would like to say that this world is a full of irony and pain. This film is my way to look at the world and has started from my experience and my personal emotion.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

2006 제59회 로카느로 영화제
제11회 부산국제영화제 아시아 영화진흥기구상

DIRECTOR
Gyung-tae Roh

Gyung-tae Roh

 

STAFF

Director Gyung-tae Roh
Production CICADA I REMEMBER.co.,ltd
Screen Writer Gyung-tae Roh
Cinematographer Young-sam Jung
Editor Mi-joo Kim
Lighting Young-ki An
Sound Jae-sin Lee
Sound Supervisor Seung-chul Lee
Art Director Jae-chung Kim
Cast Hyun-joo Baek, Do-yeon Kim, Heung-ki Oh Bok-soon Hwang, Suk-yeon Hong