Breath

Kim Ki-Duk, the veteran who most will remember for his magical Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring returns with yet another powerful chamber piece in Breath. Jang is in prison, sentenced to death. He attempts suicide in his cell by sticking the sharp end of a toothbrush into his neck. Jang survives but the event is reported in the news, and spotted by the sculptor Yeon. Since her husband’s infidelity, she has been living in a more or less catatonic state but the news about Jang’s attempted suicide sets in motion a highly bizarre process in the young woman. She then stages one of film history’s strangest couplings when she visits Jang’s prison, pretending to be his ex-girlfriend. The prison director, who we never see, grants her repeated visits, all the while with him studying their encounters through a surveillance camera. And then everything evolves in a very weird direction.