DECISION TO LEAVE Q&A with Park Chan-wook | TIFF 2022

The team behind DECISION TO LEAVE in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. A dramatic love story is the beating heart of Park Chan-wook’s mesmerizing and lavish noir masterpiece, featuring the charismatic Chinese star Tang Wei.
The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit tiff.net.
After his dazzling Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Lady Vengeance) drew genre film fans into a world of graphic hyper-violence and powerful dark passions, Park Chan-wook elevated the tone and style of his suspense thrillers with The Handmaiden. He’s brought that same refined elegance to his latest seductive masterwork, and we can only be grateful. Decision to Leave is an exceptional love story and a sublime noir thriller that invites the audience not to seek a culprit or a solution to the riddles proposed by the plot but to get lost in a mesmerizing tangle of tension, slow-burning desire and subtle emotions. The resulting experience is a personal and highly satisfying immersion in pure cinema. Everything starts with a fall. A man who was climbing a mountain is found dead, crashed on the ground. Tragedy? Suicide? Homicide? Handsome detective Hae-jun (Park Hae-il) investigates the mystery. He is a gentle man, happily married and devoted to his work, the youngest inspector in Busan, a city of unsolved cases where crime rides high. Making the case even smokier is Seo-rae (Tang Wei), the elusive, charismatic, and impossibly attractive Chinese wife of the deceased, whose charm creeps under Hae-jun’s skin. In ways he could have never envisioned, their broken conversations - deciphered through smartphone translations, her composed gestures, and mysterious allure - upset his life little by little, making him fall mentally and emotionally. Wei’s performance intrigues and captivates, her black-widow role seemingly tailored to her magnetic personality, shining in the splendid work of indisputable Korean master Park.
Park Chan-wook was born in Seoul. He studied philosophy at Sogang University and later worked as a film critic while pursuing a career as a writer-director. His works include The Moon Is... the Sun’s Dream (92), Joint Security Area (00), I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (06), Thirst (09), Stoker (13), and the Festival selections Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (02), Oldboy (03), Lady Vengeance (05), and The Handmaiden (16). Decision to Leave (22) is his latest film.

[@jwyoon5448]

The best film of this year for me!!!

[@Ismisha]

YES! A masterpiece of cinema, and by far the best Director of our time

[@jinhaoh1155]

one of my FAVORITE MOVIES of all time.... I like DECISION TO LEAVE more than OLDBOY!

[@jasminesuh8693]

Best masterpiece that becoming a wave that gets bigger and dominates images in my daily life!!

[@X24.mp4]

So glad I got to see this at TIFF… favourite director of all time

[@ninaroy5574]

Mesmerizing film that lingers on your mind for a long time

[@hello-kj9ff]

man this film had me criss crossed trying to guess the next move
it was something cool and I can't stop being influenced by its core message

[@deexonm1561]

What's the core message?

[@hello-kj9ff]

@@deexonm1561 It says something about how humans fall deeply in love regardless of marriage and how we view infidelity. It's not a deep message but it's masterfully told almost hypnotic. I'm not a fan of his work as I haven't watched many of his films but now I can see that Park Chan Wook is a very moved individual.

[@lalakuma9]

Wish I could have seen it at TIFF 😭 I can't wait to see it in the theaters

[@user-jz4oz3bx3n]

Amazing masterpiece !

[@piecespieces2227]

💕

[@kaodiaries]

geniuss

[@Kashif314]

I thought he decided to leave mid Q&A session from the title. I know I am dumb but didn't know that much.

[@moresnetp6657]

Interpreter is very bad unluckly

[@Bucketa]

The idiotic question about a sequel omg… “they haven’t found the body” 🤦‍♀️

[@aziragoramo]

Interpreter is often flat out incorrect in her translations. Shocking

[@samuelblachon95130]

TIFF is only a rip off of the cannes film festival

[@michaeldeguzman3852]

what the fuck are you talking about

[@maxcooper2850]

Feel like your joking but. Any excuse to come together for cinema is warranted. We need more director recognition and opportunities for film fans to meet.

[@samuelblachon95130]

@@maxcooper2850 yes i meant that a lot of tiff movies came from the cannes film festival

[@NorthDallasForty.]

Boring

[@OliCordova]

How about you fucking shut up? I bet your entire LIFE is boring.

[@Covernat-du2oc]

White boy hush

[@aicuzino7017]

Who? You? The boring person is bored the most.