“Decision to Leave” is the latest film by Korean director Park Chan-wook. The film premiered at this years Cannes Film Festival.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the film.
- Decision to Leave is a 2022 South Korean romantic mystery film
- The film is produced, co-written and directed by Park Chan-wook
- It stars Tang Wei and Park Hae-il
- In April 2022, the film was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival
- There Park Chan-wook won Best Director
- Decision to Leave was released theatrically on 29 June 2022 in South Korea
- It was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards
- The film follows a detective who falls for a mysterious widow after she becomes the prime suspect in his latest murder investigation
- The film is produced by Moho Film
- It is financed and distributed by CJ Entertainment
- It began principal photography in October 2020
- Decision to Leave was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival to be held from 17 to 28 May 2022
- It screened for the first time at the Lumière Grand Theater on 23 May 2022
- It was subsequently released theatrically in South Korea on 29 June 2022
- In April 2022, streaming service MUBI acquired the rights to release the film in North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, India and Turkey
- It will be released theatrically in the US and UK on 14 October 2022
- According to CJ E&M, the film was sold to 192 countries ahead of its premiere in competition at 75th Cannes Film Festival
- It held its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022
- Its US premiere at Fantastic Fest Film Festival took place in Austin, Texas from 22 to 29 September
- The film was released on 29 June 2022 on 1,374 screens in South Korea
- It opened at first place on Korean box office with 114,592 admissions
- On 13 July, after two weeks of release, the film surpassed 1 million cumulative admissions
- As of 15 October 2022, it is the 8th highest-grossing Korean film of 2022
- With a gross of 13,574,873 $ and 1,884,394 admissions
- On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 92% rating
- Based on 79 reviews
- With an average rating of 8.1/10
- The site’s critics consensus reads, “If Decision to Leave isn’t quite on the same level as Park Chan-wook’s masterpieces, this romantic thriller is still a remarkable achievement by any other metric”
- Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 85 out of 100
- Based on 29 critic reviews, indicating “universal acclaim”
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