Festivals - Gerardmer 2021: The cursed lesson will be screened

By Mulder, 23 january 2021

The Cursed lesson is a film directed by Kim Ji-han and Juhn Jai-hong. The cast includes Lee Chae-young, Jo Jung-min, Choi Cheol-ho, Kan Mi-youn.

Kim Ji-han worked as a producer before signing his first feature film, The Cursed Lesson, with director Juhn Jai-hong. Jai-hong studied business studies at Webster University in Vienna and then turned to filmmaking with the short film Colors (2005). He then worked as an assistant to the late filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, who decided to produce his first feature film, Beautiful, in 2008.

Synopsis :
Hyo-jung has been working as a model for several years but her physique no longer corresponds to today's beauty criteria and she finds herself sidelined. She then decides to take yoga classes of a new kind in order to become desirable again. All participants have to train hard in order to reach Kundalini, the ultimate energy source of life in the Sanskrit language. But as they get closer to it, more and more terrifying things happen...

The Cursed lesson
Directed by Kim Ji-han & Juhn Jai-hong
Produced by Kim Ji-han
Written by Juhn Jai-hong
Starring Lee Chae-young, Jo Jung-min, Choi Cheol-ho, Kan Mi-youn
Music by Park In-young
Cinematography: Lee Du-hun
Edited by Jung Jin-hee
Release date: November 26 2020 (Singapore)
Running time: 93 minutes

(Source: press release)