Miss Granny

November 1, 6:15pm - 8:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies

The Center for Korean Studies fall film series features a screening of Miss Granny芒鈧(矛藛藴矛茠聛铆鈥⑴ 锚路赂毛鈥︹偓), a 2014 film directed by Hwang Donghyuk. The fall series, "Late Blossoms: Old Age in Korean Cinema," offers recent films with an upbeat take on old age. In Miss Granny, the central character is a seventy-four-year-old widow living with her son and his family. She has a difficult relationship with her daughter-in-law, but is proud of her son, whom she reared by herself. On the day her son tells her she will be sent to a nursing home, she wanders the streets in distress and comes across a mysterious photo studio claiming to capture one芒鈧劉s youth. She has her photo taken, thinking it will be her last portrait for her funeral, but as she leaves the studio, she is dumbfounded by her reflection in a mirror. Now a fresh, twenty-year-old woman, she hides from her family and changes her name.


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Center for Korean Studies, Mānoa Campus

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Merclyn Labuguen, 956-7041, merclyn@hawaii.edu,

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