# L'Arc (2005)

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**Original title**: *활*
**Runtime**: 90 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Kim Ki-duk
**Written by**: Kim Ki-duk
**Starring**: Han Yeo-reum, Jeon Seong-hwan, Seo Ji-seok, Jeon Kuk-hwan, Kim Ik-tae, Jang Dae-sung

> *A girl who thought the sea was the whole world, became the whole world to an old man.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Blue Lagoon meets The Old Man and the Sea. A 60-year-old man raises a girl on a fishing boat. It delivers a quiet life disrupted.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn, tender

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