헤어질 결심 (aka Decision To Leave) (2022)

A married police detective (Park Hae-il) works on a case where a retired immigration officer (Yoo Seung Mok) has fallen off the cliff of a mountain he frequently climbed. He suspects that it was not an accident but murder and the main suspect is the dead man's much younger wife (Tang Wei). But when he falls in love with her, it will lead to a dark end. Co-written and directed by Park Chan Wook (SNOWPIERCER), who won the best director award at the Cannes film festival for his work here. We've all seen movies about obsessive love but I don't think I've seen a more disturbing vision than this one. It's a complicated journey but its characters seem determined to follow it through all the way to its nihilistic conclusion. I've seen the movie referred to as a romantic thriller but I didn't find anything "romantic" about it. The twists and turns are exhausting but I mean that in a good way. An intense thriller. With Lee Jung Hyun and Go Kyung Pyo.