We've got an exclusive look at the trailer for No Regret, which is apparently the first-ever South Korean feature film by an out gay director. (Yes, distributed by our new owners -- here! films/Regent Releasing -- but yes, also quite impressive-looking on its own merits.)
Via the New York Times, a helpful summary to go with the pretty moving pictures: "A working-class South Korean homosexual and a factory owner's engaged son embark on a clandestine love affair in director Hee-il Leesong's heartfelt tale of forbidden love."
That review also uses the words "tragic" and "doomed," though I'd add adjectives such as "heart-wrenching" and "stunningly beautiful" based solely on the few minutes of footage in the trailer. See for yourself:
Want more international film options? (That is to say: Is it hot out and you want to impress a date with your smart taste?)
Read Out's resident film columnist Dale Peck on Germany's The Edge of Heaven, which opened yesterday:
The intricate, lively story slips and slides between countries, languages, and ethnicities, fragmenting along temporal lines in the manner of González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros and superimposing various characters’ story lines a la Kieslowski’s Three Colors.
Watch the trailer for that below:
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