Park Chan-wook & Park Hae-il on Decision to Leave | NYFF60

Director Park Chan-wook and actor Park Hae-il discuss Decision to Leave, a Main Slate selection of this year’s festival, moderated by NYFF Executive Director, Eugene Hernandez. Decision to Leave is now playing daily at Film at Lincoln Center. Get tickets: Busan detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) finds that he’s increasingly obsessed with a puzzling new case: a middle-aged businessman has mysteriously fallen to his death during a rock climbing expedition. Upon discovering photos of his abused wife, a Chinese national named Seo-rae (Tang Wei), Hae-joon begins to suspect it wasn’t an accident, all the while becoming emotionally and erotically drawn to her. From this Hitchcockian situation, director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) weaves a swelling, expanding, ever more complex tale about a possible black widow and the investigator who just might be fashioning his own web. One of Park’s most enveloping and accomplished thrillers, which earned him the Best Director award at this year’s C