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Movie poster: Cicada (2022)
🎬 Movie
2022 · 122 min Drama Family
7.5 / 10 · TMDB

A family's unspoken history vibrates beneath the surface of their quiet home, as palpable as the hum of cicadas on a summer night. The film observes the delicate, fraying threads connecting parents and children, siblings and spouses, through meticulously framed scenes of domestic routine. Every shared meal and averted glance carries the weight of decades. The narrative unfolds not through grand revelations, but in the accumulation of stifled emotions and half-finished sentences, building toward an inevitable confrontation with the echoes of the past that have shaped their present silence.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title 매미소리
Year 2022
Country South Korea
Genre Drama, Family
Director Lee Chung-ryoul
Runtime 122 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.5/10 (2 votes)

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This is a drama of profound restraint, where the camera's patient gaze reveals more than dialogue ever could. The performances are studies in internal conflict, communicated through the slightest tremor or a prolonged silence.

What lingers after the final frame is a deep empathy for the characters' quiet burdens and a reflection on the debts we owe to memory. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Lee Chung-ryoul

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Stifling living room air, the weight of unasked questions, sunlight cutting through dust in a still house.

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