E J-yong had featured Youn in his witty mockumentary Actresses (2009). Here he gives his good friend the most somber role of her long and varied career. Youn could have chewed scenery, played it for shock and tears. Instead So-young emerges as a down-to-earth participant-observer witnessing the lack of welfare support and basic dignity afforded to many of Korea’s older citizens.

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