Abigail Harm is a woman living in a fictionalized New York City, who, after being granted a wish by a strange visitor, asks for love and learns of a creature who might provide it. Inspired by the Korean folktale "The Woodcutter and the Nymph.
Acting
Amanda Plummer's brittle, heartbreaking stillness.
Direction
Lee Isaac Chung's pre-Minari minimalist poetry.
Cinematography
Dusty apartments that feel like forgotten fairy tales.
Director
Lee Isaac Chung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from 'The Woodcutter and the Nymph,' a Korean tale where stealing a fairy's clothes traps her in marriage—Chung flips the gendered power dynamics entirely.
Shot in 2012, this was Chung's second feature before he disappeared into Minari's sun-drenched fields—same obsession with immigrant displacement, just buried in magical realism here.
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