{"id":625919,"date":"2026-10-10T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625919\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:48:09","slug":"triangle-of-sadness-producer-backs-korean-busan-project-market-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625919\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Triangle of Sadness’ Producer Backs Korean Busan Project Market Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA woman who has spent a decade shut inside a room at a rural love motel, waiting for the man who left her, discovers that the motel has been staging her love life all along in \u201cSatellite of Love<\/a>,\u201d the fourth feature from South Korean filmmaker Park Syeyoung<\/a> (\u201cThe Fin\u201d). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe project is part of the Asian Project Market<\/a>, which runs within the Busan International Film Festival<\/a>\u2019s Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe motel sits among reed beds and woods, its rooms echoing with lovers every night. When her lover walks out, the woman insists he come back in 10 years, to the day and the hour. He says no. She stays put regardless, never leaving the room and cycling through the same chores \u2013 eating, washing up, laundering the sheets \u2013 while guests check in and out around her.<\/p>\n

\n\tA decade on, a man turns up saying he is the one who left. She doesn\u2019t know his face, but he keeps at it, and slowly they fall in love. Then the cracks show. Their conversations start to loop. When he pleads with her to run away with him, the motel\u2019s managers take him away.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe truth is that the motel exists to keep the woman\u2019s feelings alive and replay them. Men brought in from outside are coached to act out romances with her again and again, performing love, regret and guilt while their tears are gathered. Once she knows this, she goes back to her routine and turns her eyes to the door, waiting again for someone to come back.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI hope to convey the way in which our memories are so volatile and how the present can keep altering what has happened in the past,\u201d Park says. \u201cHow nothing is definite and every memory is subject to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPark has been working on his third feature, \u201cWho Stole My Cross?,\u201d which is now in post-production. His first two features followed groups of characters from the outside, without digging into their inner wants, while \u201cWho Stole My Cross?\u201d centers on a single figure. That shift pushed him further, and he wants \u201cSatellite of Love\u201d to be driven entirely by its character. The script is in development.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is produced by Coproduction Office\u2019s Philippe Bober and creative producer Sylvain Cruiziat. The company has worked with Park on \u201cThe Masked Monster\u201d and \u201cThe Fin,\u201d which played Locarno in 2024 and 2025, respectively, and on \u201cWho Stole My Cross?\u201d Bober, who founded the company, produced Ruben \u00d6stlund\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or winners \u201cTriangle of Sadness\u201d and \u201cThe Square.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe producers rank Park as a singular voice in present-day Korean cinema. \u201cSatellite of Love\u201d will be their fourth film together. \u201cWe are thrilled to continue supporting Syeyoung on his path as an auteur, and to accompany him on this next chapter,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the APM, the team wants to meet potential Asian co-production partners and financiers and to put Park\u2019s next film in front of the industry early.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeyond \u201cSatellite of Love,\u201d Park is writing several commercial features he hopes to shoot in Korea alongside more personal projects he will make independently. \u201cI will make films till I die, and I want to explore a range of financing approaches along the way,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who has spent a decade shut inside a room at a rural love motel, waiting for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[307418,27449,156,409,111,139,69,307419,307420],"class_list":["post-625919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-asian-project-market","tag-busan-international-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-park-syeyoung","tag-satellite-of-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}