If you loved With a Girl of Black Soil, try Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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With a Girl of Black Soil

2007 · dir. Jeon Soo-il

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Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells

2009 · dir. Jeon Soo-il

What they share

Both films are directed by Jeon Soo-il, and they both carry the outsider, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to With a Girl of Black Soil, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells is

Paris, Texas without the convertible. A Korean businessman travels to Nepal to return the body of a deceased worker to his village. Stark, lovely, and deeply sad.

If you loved With a Girl of Black Soil, try Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells

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What they share

What Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells is

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