In My End Is My Beginning

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Not to be confused with The End Is My Beginning.
In My End Is My Beginning
Hangul
끝과 시작
Hanja
끝과 始作
Revised RomanizationGgeutgwa sijak
McCune–ReischauerKkŭtgwa sijak
Directed byMin Kyu-dong
Written byMin Kyu-dong
Produced byMin Ji-soo
Seo Eun-jung
StarringUhm Jung-hwa
Kim Hyo-jin
Hwang Jung-min
CinematographyKim Byeong-seo
Kim Jun-young
Edited bySeong Su-a
Music byKim Jun-seong
Distributed byLotte Entertainment
Release date
  • April 4, 2013 (2013-04-04)
Running time
87 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$252,840[1]

In My End Is My Beginning (Korean: 끝과 시작; RR: Ggeutgwa sijak) is a 2013 South Korean film starring Uhm Jung-hwa, Kim Hyo-jin, and Hwang Jung-min.

In My End Is My Beginning originally appeared as a short film in Five Senses of Eros, a 2009 anthology about sensuality and sexuality. Then writer-director Min Kyu-dong expanded the short into a feature-length director's cut, which provides a fuller version of the story including "the end" of the relationship not shown in the short. This expanded theatrical version made its world premiere at the 2009 Busan International Film Festival.[2] It was later released in theaters on April 4, 2013.[3][4]

The title is a quotation from the T. S. Eliot poem East Coker, which is taken in turn from "En ma Fin gît mon Commencement", the saying Mary, Queen of Scots, embroidered on her cloth of estate whilst in prison in England.[5]

Plot[edit]

Jung-ha (Uhm Jung-hwa) is left alone and heartbroken after her husband Jae-in (Hwang Jung-min) dies in a car accident. Her grief sharpens when she learns after his death that he had been cheating on her with her friend Na-ru (Kim Hyo-jin). As a novelist, Jae-in had been looking for new stimulation to rouse him from his boring routine, and the secrecy and risk of his affair with Na-ru inspired his work. After Jae-in's funeral, Na-ru goes to Jung-ha, begging for forgiveness, saying that she will do anything if only Jung-ha will let her stay at her house. Jung-ha refuses at first, but eventually they begin living together. The strange co-habitation arrangement between Jung-ha and Na-ru and its complicated web of love, hate, lust, and guilt, develops into a lesbian relationship, leading to a new way of life.[6][7]

Cast[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "In My End Is My Beginning (2013)". www.koreanfilm.or.kr.
  2. ^ Elley, Derek (27 October 2009). "In My End is My Beginning". Variety. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
  3. ^ Kim, Hyun-min (22 March 2013). "Fatal Love, Hatred and Sympathy - In My End Is My Beginning". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
  4. ^ Lee, Jin-ho (28 March 2013). "Uhm Jung Hwa and Kim Hyo Jin Release Seductive Lesbian Stills for Upcoming Film". enewsWorld. CJ E&M. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
  5. ^ "The Words of Mary, Queen of Scots".
  6. ^ "In My End Is My Beginning (2013)". The Chosun Ilbo. 5 April 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-05.
  7. ^ "2013.4.5 NOW PLAYING: In My End Is My Beginning (19)". Korea JoongAng Daily. 5 April 2013. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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