✅ If there’s a worthy successor to classics like Vertigo or The Maltese Falkon, it’s this.
✅ Hard to tell what’s more spellbindingly seductive, Tang Wei’s performance or Kim Ji-yong’s cinematography.
✅ Nothing in this brilliant script by Jeong Seo-kyeong and Park is without meaning, with layers and layers of subtexts in a mazelike plot.
The English title “Decision to Leave” is fine; the dumbest distribution title award goes to Germany’s Die Frau im Nebel (The Woman in the Mist).