Planet of Snail

Original title: Planet of Snail (2011)

UK release: 6 July 2012
IMDb rating: 7,4 /10

Official summary

Young-Chan has been deaf and blind since childhood. As he puts it himself, “In the beginning there was darkness and silence, and the darkness and silence were with god. And when ‘I’ arrived, they came to me.” Young-Chan has no idea how to participate in the world until he meets Soon-Ho, who also has a physical handicap. He marries her and learns to communicate with the outside world through her. By softly tapping each other’s finger, they can understand one another; it is sometimes as if they are tenderly playing a piano. This documentary follows the couple in the same gentle tempo as Young-Chan moves through his life. We see them replacing a lightbulb together, receiving friends, working on a theater piece, reading a book, and gliding on a sleigh down a mountain. These everyday scenes are accompanied by a poetic voice-over by Young-Chan, in which he reflects on his existence without sight and hearing. He feels like an astronaut, but that doesn’t mean he is without a sense of beauty in the world. This becomes palpable when Young-Chan touches the bark of a tree, runs his hand through sand, or brushes raindrops on a window pane with his fingertips.

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Director: Yi Seung-jun
Producer: NHK

Country: Finland, Japan, Korea, Republic Of
Distributor: Dogwoof
Trailer added the: 20 March 2012
Official website: http://www.planetofsnail.com/
Runtime: 1h28 (88 minutes)

Genre: Drama Documentary Keywords: Planet of Snail film trailer Young Chan documentary drama South Korea Read: 118

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Planet of Snail (2011) on Vimeo
Planet of Snail (2011) A film by Seungjun Yi Length: 87' / 52' HD 16:9 Color Stereo IDFA 2011 (Winner, Best Feature Length Documentary), Tribeca 2012 (Competition,… Date: 2 January 2013 03:14 Source: vimeo.com
Planet of Snail, review - Telegraph
This tranquil, poetic documentary Planet of Snail by Yi Seung-jun is a unique love story with a universal resonance, writes Robbie Collin. Date: 2 January 2013 03:14 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Planet of Snail – review | Film | The Observer
Mark Kermode loves Yi Seung-jun's heart-warming documentary about a disabled couple who communicate using their fingers Date: 2 January 2013 03:14 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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