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Lee Chang-Dong and Moon So-ri present "Oasis"

 

With Director Lee Chang-Dong and Actress Moon So-ri

 

 

Wednesday, May 5, 2008 | 7:00 PM

Asia Society
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
New York, NY 10021

Admission:
$10 Members / $12 Non-members

 


OASIS (133 min) 2002
오아시스

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Lead actress Moon So-ri will join director Lee for audience Q&A after the screening.

Jong-du Hong (Sol Kyung-gu) is just out of prison for manslaughter and decides to call on the family of the victim. They send him away, but not before he has met the victim’s daughter Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), a young woman disabled by cerebral palsy. Both victims of family abuse these two misfits form a fragile but supportive relationship.