In Her Place (2014 film)
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| In Her Place | |
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| Directed by | Albert Shin |
| Written by | Albert Shin Pearl Ball-Harding |
| Produced by | Albert Shin Igor Drljaca |
| Starring | Gil Hae-yeon Ahn Ji-hye Yoon Da-gyeong |
| Cinematography | Moon Myeong-hwan |
| Edited by | Albert Shin |
| Music by | Alexandre Klinke |
Production company | TimeLapse Pictures |
| Distributed by | A71 Productions |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | Korean |
In Her Place (Korean: 인 허 플레이스) is a 2014 Canadian-South Korean film directed and written by Albert Shin. The film follows a wealthy woman who moves in to the countryside home of a pregnant teenage girl and her mother and waits to adopt the unborn child.
It premiered on September 4, 2014, in the Toronto International Film Festival's Discovery program.[1]
Inspired by Korean culture's strong stigma against adoption,[1] the film stars Gil Hae-yeon and Ahn Ji-hye as a mother and daughter living on a farm in South Korea. When the teenage daughter becomes pregnant, a woman (Yoon Da-gyeong) arrives from Seoul to propose a secret adoption, conditional on her staying with them for the duration of the pregnancy so that she can hide the adoption when she returns to Seoul after the baby's birth.
Cast
- Gil Hae-yeon as Mother
- Ahn Ji-hye as Girl
- Yoon Da-gyeong as Woman
- Kim Chang-hwan as Police Officer
Production
The film was shot entirely in Korea at Shin's family farm.[2] Regarding his inspirations for the film, Shin said:
I had this idea of, "What if I bring together three women? And what if they were of different generations? And what if I told the film from three different perspectives?" And, instead of it being vignettes I made it one linear film and switched the point of view, all contained in one space.[2]