Director Yeon Sang-ho's 'Paradise Lost' to Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, Domestic Release in October

Director Yeon Sang-ho's new film "Paradise Lost" has been officially invited to the Special Presentations section of the 51st Toronto International Film Festival.

Special Presentations is a flagship section of the Toronto International Film Festival that showcases new works and highly anticipated films from world-renowned directors.

With this invitation, Director Yeon Sang-ho has been selected by Toronto for two consecutive years, following his previous film "Face," which was invited to the Special Presentations section of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. Furthermore, following the official invitation of "Colony" to the Midnight Screenings section of the 79th Cannes Film Festival in the first half of this year, the entry of "Paradise Lost" into Toronto in the second half marks a milestone: he has successfully presented two commercial films at the world's two major international film festivals within a single year.

Along with the news of the festival invitation, the international poster, which has now been unveiled, is drawing attention. The poster captures in a single frame a worn-out photograph of a child with the face torn away, a silhouette walking out from the darkness, and Ryu So-young (Kim Hyun-joo) standing with her head bowed in front of the photo. The faceless silhouette hints at the son, Sun-woo, who has returned after nine years looking completely different from her memories, sparking curiosity about the events that will unfold between the two.

Director Yeon Sang-ho himself opens the trailer that was released alongside the poster. Appearing in the opening intro, the director introduced the work, saying, "While working on 'The King of Pigs', 'The Fake', and 'Face', I have pondered the dark side of humanity. This film, 'Paradise Lost', is the darkest story I have ever held. It is a film about a mother's desperate struggle as she falls into a dark abyss between a child brought back to life through AI and the real child who returned alive after nine years."

In "Paradise Lost", the role of Ryu So-young is played by Kim Hyun-joo, who is collaborating with Director Yeon Sang-ho once again following the "Hellbound" series, "Jung_E", and "The Bequeathed", while the role of the strange son Ryu Sun-woo, who returns after nine years, is played by Bae Hyun-sung, who is taking on his first lead role in a film.

"Paradise Lost", which will be unveiled in Toronto, is set to be released in theaters domestically this October.



Reported by Kim Ji-hye (SBS Entertainment News)
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