Busan 2025 Review: COMING OF AGE, Death Comes for Us All in Morbidly Amusing Korean Indie

Time and its many forms form the core of Coming of Age, one of the standout new titles at this year's Busan International Film Festival. Director Jeong Seung-o explores familial responsibility and personal desire with wit, frankness and lucidity in this rich sophomore work. Cheol-taek is an ageing alcoholic, living alone in a hovel and working a factory job, who is diagnosed with stage four cancer. The burden of caring for him falls to his only daughter Jeong-mi, a struggling actress making ends meet as an extra on a TV show. Meanwhile, Hyeon-suk, Jeong-mi's mother and Cheol-taek's estranged wife, is also suffering from the pressures of family. She lives alone in a well-appointed home and wants to live her own life, but her siblings, all...

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