LKFF 2022: The Anchor + Director Q&A

The Anchor 앵커 Q&A with director Jeong Ji-yeon

DIRECTOR: JEONG JI-YEON

WRITER: JEONG JI-YEON

PRODUCER: SIN HYE-YEUNYEON, KIM SUEONG-HWAN, PARK HYEON-TAE

CAST: CHUN WOO-HEE, LEE HYE-YEONG, SHIN HA-KYUN, CHA RAE-HYUNG

THRILLER, MYSTERY / 2022 / 111 MIN / CERT. 15

Leading TV news anchor Jung Se-ra (Chun Woo-hee) is under immense pressure, her career driven by her suffocating mother (Lee Hye-yeong) and jeopardised by younger female rival reporters, even as she conceals a broken marriage to keep up appearances. One evening, Se-ra gets a call at the station from a young woman who, with her daughter, is the victim of a home invasion. What ought to be a scoop, will in fact cast Se-ra adrift, while the viewer, along with the caller’s psychiatrist Cho In-ho (Shin Ha-kyun), will struggle to work out what connects these women. Jeong Ji-yeon’s mesmerising psychological thriller plays out its genre tropes to dizzying perfection, while also addressing the inequalities and traumas which women both face and hand down in Korean society.