Decision to leave

ROMANTIC MYSTERY | 138 MINS | SOUTH KOREA | DIRECTOR: PARK CHAN-WOOK | PRODUCERS: ARK CHAN-WOOK & JISUN BACK | BYRON PREMIERE

South Korea’s Official Selection for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 95th Academy Awards in 2023.

Winner of the Best Director prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) returns in masterful form with the seductive neo-noir romance, DECISION TO LEAVE.

After lamenting the lack of interesting cases in Busan, scrupulous detective Hae-joon lands a whale – a possible homicide – when he’s enlisted to investigate the death of a man whose body is found at the bottom of a cliff. The prime suspect is the man’s beautiful Chinese wife, Seo-rae, who is suspiciously unmoved by the events that have left her widowed. Wrapped in the investigation of the unusual death, Hae-joon’s interest in the woman soon transcends the professional as he becomes enamored with the main suspect.

With a razor-sharp understanding of the genre, director Park Chan-wook masterfully interrogates its conventions with his trademark artistry - a gripping thriller mystery layered with themes of conflict between desire and morality, cementing it as one of the must-see films of the year.