Listening to the Voice of a Wind

Running time: 93 mins

An evocative trio of short stories following three women named Gina makes up Listening to the Voice of a Wind, a superbly made drama about hanging on to your dreams while trying to make it in a new land. Keeping the same fascinating themes while ricocheting around the country, the film expertly fuses the stories into one major artistic statement.

In the first story, the 20-year-old Gina is an illegal immigrant who gets involved in the Los Angeles underworld. In the next segment, 30-year-old Gina is a Las Vegas prostitute whose relationship with a tour guide may offer her a new life. Lastly, the 40-year-old Gina abandons struggles to start things anew in Alaska, as she searches for the Aurora.

In Listening to the Voice of a Wind, director Jeonjung Kim creates an intriguing, multi-layered look at the modern world filtered through the events in the lives of three different women. Or is it the same woman in three different times of her life? Figuring this out is half the fun.

Fernanco F. Croce

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