this film will be screened in the 9^th London Korean Film Festival 2014 on Friday 9^th November, in Odeon Covent Garden.

Is it acceptable for a Forty-something woman to be in a relationship with 17 year old boy? The idea of love between two people with such an age gap and the social exclusion that it can bring is the subject of Pascha.

Gaeul is a 40 year old screenwriter who lives with 17-year old Joseph and their cats. The family of the two lovers cannot comprehend the relationship. Gaeul’s family are especially baffled by every aspect of her life; raising a cat and living off of vegetables, let alone having a 17-year old lover! Gaeul’s family see her as the family’s dirty little secret. More and more obstacles from society are placed between the lovers and their happy ever after; poverty, death, opposition against vegetarianism and the couples pregnancy. Joseph encapsulates the couple’s plight best; “I am afraid I might lose courage. There are just too many things for us to fight against and what if I can’t say a word, behaving foolish in front of them?” Can a love like this survive no matter the odds in today’s society?

Pascha asks many questions of not just Korean society but society in general and will have you second guessing many of your assumptions. This is a worth well way to spend 90mins if you are tired of the standard Hollywood romcom from an emerging talent in director Shn Sun-kyoung.

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