Visitors
2009 · 110 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 240 VOTES · DIR. Lav Diaz, Hong Sang-soo, Naomi Kawase
Overview
Hong Sang-Soo’s Lost in the Mountains (South Korea, 32min) the visitor is the supremely self-centred Mi-Sook, who drives to Jeonju on impulse to see her classmate Jin-Young – only to discover that her friend is having an affair with their married professor, who Mi-Sook once dated herself. The level of social embarrassment goes off the scale. In Naomi Kawase’s Koma (Japan, 34min), Kang Jun-Il travels to a village in rural Japan to honour his grandfather’s dying wish by returning a Buddhist scroll to its ancestral home. Amid ancient superstitions, a new relationship forms. And in Lav Diaz’ Butterflies Have No Memories (Philippines, 42min) ‘homecoming queen’ Carol returns to the economically depressed former mining town she came from – and becomes the target of an absurd kidnapping plot hatched by resentful locals. Serving as his own writer, cameraman and editor, Diaz casts the film entirely from members of his crew and delivers a well-seasoned mix of social realism and fantasy. —bfi
Dialogue Timeline — 871 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:12 My grandfather's dead.
00:09:05 Junil.
00:13:21 No, not at all.
00:17:29 That cruch... indescribable.
00:22:37 Yeah.
00:33:15 I want to see your face. Can I?
00:37:33 I drove here, you know.
00:39:37 It's good to hear your voice.
00:42:21 He kept wanting to do weird stuff.
00:44:57 I don't want to force him to get divorced.
00:47:04 He said he could never be in love with someone like her.
00:50:28 I cried like a fool on the phone.
00:53:26 It's nothing. We'll sober up before you get here.
00:57:30 Yeah. You driving?
01:00:48 You can't eat with that going on, huh?
01:03:22 But we just drank and had a rest.
01:07:15 I don't want it anymore
01:10:25 Until when will you be here?
01:15:27 Food
01:18:39 Salt bread!
01:21:40 I thought you were only seven when you left
01:25:07 I visited Tatay Ferding He asked about dad
01:29:44 Because of that fucking mine!
01:45:20 I told you to stand up!