Nuit blanche

Plot synopsis:
The film starts when Kim Si-hoo, a pawnbroker, is found dead in a remote town in a derelict building, the police are divided whether it was a murder or a suicide.
Fourteen years previous to that a man's body is found on an abandoned ship. The prime suspect, a woman suspected of being his lover, is also found dead soon afterwards. The woman's daughter Lee Ji-ah later changes her name to Yoo Mi-ho when she moves in with her aunt, where she grows a flower garden.
Fourteen years later, detective Jo Min-woo accidentally discovers the link between the two cases. Talking to the pawnbroker's widow and her son, Kim Yo-han, gives no clue. Then Jo Min-woo requests assistance from Han Dong-soo, who was investigating this case fourteen years ago. Han Dong-soo remembers every fact as this unsolved case ruined his career and killed his son. Dong-soo decides to re-investigate along with Min-woo and Lee Si-yeong, an employee of Mi-ho's rich fiance.
Yo-han has matured into a murderer and eliminates those who get in Mi-ho's way. He exists as Mi-ho's shadow, requiring nothing in return. Secretly they are still as close as ever while they are living out separate lives. Mi-ho knows of Yo-han's crimes but looks away from them and encourages them. It is later revealed that Yo-han killed his father after he found him molesting Ji-ah, and Ji-ah killed her mother who was pimping her out to throw suspicion off Yo-han. In the end, Yo-han kills himself to protect Ji-ah.

Tags: magical realism

Review:
Touching & Breathtakingly Beautiful. I watched Nuit Blanche because it was linked to from Wired.com. I only watched it because I'd worked on a project relating to car safety, and it was introduced as a film with a slow motion car crash.Little did I expect, however, to watch one of the most beautiful, romantic, transcendent and enchanting short films I've ever seen.Nuit Blanche is stunningly beautiful.Visually, it's spectacular. The music, literally, soothes my soul... If you've only seen this on a laptop with bad speakers, try watching it on a PC with high quality sound.I can't remember the last time I watched a short film that touched me as deeply, or that I watched another 20 times since.Bravo to the producer! Thank you for making my day.. Four of the most beautiful minutes of film ever!. Stunning. If you get a chance, see the Making Of Nuit Blanche as well, at http://vimeo.com/9076775.Although this black and white homage to all that is Paris and all that is love was CGI-generated and -enhanced, it reminds me a bit of Luc Besson's beautiful "Angel-A," which was not. Worth a look if you like this.Extra line 1 forced by IMDb's dumb 10-line rule. Extra line 2 forced by IMDb's dumb 10-line rule. Extra line 3 forced by IMDb's dumb 10-line rule. Extra line 4 forced by IMDb's dumb 10-line rule. Extra line 5 forced by IMDb's dumb 10-line rule.. More pretentious than beautiful in my opinion.. "Nuit blanche" is a Canadian movie from 2009, so two more years only until this one has its 10th anniversary. The title "White Night" is already a good indicator of this being a black-and-white film. Of course, the title has to be about the style because the story here is hardly worth saying something about. A woman sits in a restaurant, a man is outside and apparently the two share a moment that is as intimate as fictitious and unites them before we find out eventually that nothing about it was real. Or was it? Anyway, looking at the film's popularity and the number of votes, you can see that many people have actually seen it. It is by far the most known work for the core trio here and that includes director Manoukian, who has been the opposite of prolific since 2009, lead actress Lindley, whose only other credit is apparently as an assistant on "Deal or No Deal", and actor Coughlan who is the most experienced of the three, but also not famous at all. Their work here runs for under five minutes and there is no spoken dialogue included, so no matter where you are from you can watch it without subtitles. But why would you? It is really nothing special or memorable and that comes from somebody who enjoys modern b&w films a lot usually.