Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-fi Film Club is a South Korean movie directed by Lee Hyuk-rae starring Bong Joon-ho and Choi Jong-tae.
Thirty years later, a group of film lovers reminisce about their youthful times when a small video store called “Yellow Club” shaped them, both cinematically and personally.
This documentary is a reunion of those friends and what has become of their lives.
A legendary place in South Korea that gave rise to filmmakers like Bong Joon-ho (Okja) and Choi Jong-tae (Fly, Daddy, Fly).
A touching documentary filled with love for cinema, where we have the opportunity to intimately connect with the directors and all those people who were part of their past, their memories, and who, in a way, remain very present today.
About the documentary:
Personal, intimate. It’s more of an introspective approach than an informative documentary. It provides information, yes, for those who may not be familiar, but it’s a film that primarily aims to tell the passage of time and the love for cinema, that cinema from the 90s which gave birth to so many talents and which Netflix now brings us closer to internationally, in South Korea.
It’s not that it’s a documentary you can’t miss, but it’s a poignant chapter in the lives of these film lovers who lived those days surrounded by movies and short films, making their dreams a reality.
Years have passed, and life, as it usually goes, has pulled them apart.
This documentary has served to bring them back together through streaming in a very endearing film.
Documentary Trailer
With
Kim Hyung-oak
Ahn Nae-sang
Visitor Rating: 3 Stars