Park Chan-wook & Park Hae-il on the Romance & Language of 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 Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish. Decision to Leave is now playing 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 Directo