Red Nails
HWANG Seulgi
- South Korea
- 2024
- 86min
- 12 +
- DCP
- color
Synopsis
Hong is in debt and brings her mother Seo-hee, who suffers from dementia, home from a care facility. Driven solely by money, Hong has no desire to get along with Seo-hee and secretly uses her money to pay debts and go on dates. Over the course of their time together, Hong and Seo-hee gradually open up to each other while confronting painful pasts. But as Hong tries to work and build a life of her own in her late 30s, Seo-hee's presence and her worsening symptoms weigh heavily on her.
Director's Statement
Red Nails begins when Hong, the protagonist struggling with financial hardship, brings her mother, Seo-hee, home from a nursing facility. Through this story, I wanted to address the sense of alienation and questions about care faced by unmarried women in their late 30s working in precarious jobs, as well as by other young people living in the same era as me. In addition, with the super-aged society fast approaching, I wished to speak candidly about the anxiety and loneliness that people now in their 30s and 40s feel about the future.
schedule
| Code | Time | Theater | Grade | |
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| Red Nails | 2025-08-23 | 10:30 - 11:56 | MEGABOX Sinchon 5 |   |
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| Red Nails | 2025-08-27 | 16:30 - 17:56 | MEGABOX Sinchon 7 | |
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Director
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HWANG SeulgiHwang Seulgi (b. 1985, Masan, South Korea) studied French Language and Literature at Sungshin Women's University before leaving to enter the School of Film at the Korea National University of Arts, where she graduated in 2017. She has directed several short films including Missing Child (2011), Freeway (2017), and A Good Day (2021). Red Nails is her feature debut.
Credit
- Producer김세훈(PGK) KIM Sehun (PGK)
- Cast 장선, 변중희, 이유경, 기윤 JANG Sun, BYUN Chunghee, LEE Yukyung, GI YOON, KWAK Jinmoo
- Screenwriter 황슬기 HWANG Seulgi
- Cinematographer 김지현 KIM Jihyun
- Editor 박세영(박세영편집실) PARK Seyoung
- Sound 이주석(고요), 배수찬 LEE Jusuk(Goyo Soundworks), BAE Soochan (Oh!sory Sound)