
Yuh-jung Youn
Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja | The Bacchus Lady by E J-yong
KOR 2016, Panorama

Yuh-jung Youn
Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja | The Bacchus Lady by E J-yong
KOR 2016, Panorama

Choi Hyun-jun, Yuh-jung Youn
Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja | The Bacchus Lady by E J-yong
KOR 2016, Panorama
Youn So-young has contracted gonorrhoea. ‘Make me well again quickly’ she tells her gynaecologist, because she wants to get back to work. In a park in Seoul, this senior citizen manages to scrape together just enough money as a ‘Bacchus lady’ to avoid begging. ‘Bacchus ladies’ are elderly women who sell a popular soft drink containing taurine known as ‘Bacchus’ and offer sexual services on the side. Korea’s rapidly ageing society barely has any money left for its pensioners and poverty among the elderly is soaring.
When little Min-ho’s mother is detained by the police, So-young takes him in. The boy, who only speaks Filipino, experiences a rather unique sort of patchwork family in this courtyard peopled, alongside So-young, by her transgender neighbour and a one-legged young man. Many of So-young’s aged former clients and friends can no longer see a way out of their situation. One after the other, they ask this laconic lady, who for years has been harbouring a secret, for one last favour.
When little Min-ho’s mother is detained by the police, So-young takes him in. The boy, who only speaks Filipino, experiences a rather unique sort of patchwork family in this courtyard peopled, alongside So-young, by her transgender neighbour and a one-legged young man. Many of So-young’s aged former clients and friends can no longer see a way out of their situation. One after the other, they ask this laconic lady, who for years has been harbouring a secret, for one last favour.
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Youn Yuh-jung, Yoon Kye-sang, Sebastian Schipper
The actors of the film with the cinema host.
Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja · Berlinale Goes Kiez · Feb 13, 2016

Youn Yuh-jung
The main actress of the Korean film.
Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja · Berlinale Goes Kiez · Feb 13, 2016

Youn Yuh-jung, Yoon Kye-sang
During Q&A.
Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja · Berlinale Goes Kiez · Feb 13, 2016

E J-yong
The director of the film in the IL KINO.
Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja · Berlinale Goes Kiez · Feb 13, 2016
Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja | The Bacchus Lady
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