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Saturday, March 14, 2020, 7:00pm - 9:10pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/oasis-2020-03

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive Cost: $10 - Regular Admission $8 - Non-Harvard Students,
Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens. Free for Harvard
students Contact Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/oasis-2020-03 Moon So-ri
delivers a powerfully intense and tender performance as a woman whose
severe cerebral palsy has left her an outcast and pariah searching for
an escape that is suddenly delivered in the most unlikely way: by the
arrival of a sociopathic, and possibly mentally disabled stranger, who
comes to apologize for an accidental crime that irreparably scarred
her family. One of the key films of the Korean New Wave, Oasis hints
at its potential to manipulate its characters, and its audience,
through the mawkishness contained but never fully released in its
emotionally charged story. It is a credit to Lee Chang-dong's command
of his material and artistic vision that Oasis becomes something else:
a fable of two loners and social outcasts whose unlikely bond
magically sparks the inventive and restorative power of love. What
sets the film above mere miserabilism is not so much its touches of
magical realism as simply Lee's distinctive style, which approaches
the material with a sober deftness that keeps pity and sentimentality
at bay.

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Saturday, March 14, 2020 - 19:00 to 21:10

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