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Synopsis
Mrs, Sukja, a cleaning lady working for a racetrack, feels bad in hot weather and has no appetite, but forces herself to eat a few mouthfuls for the afternoon work. Ms. Young-soon, president of a senior citizen¡¯s communit center, makes rice for lunch and prepares corn for cooking with other seniors in the center. Jiyoung, who is an illustrator, keeps doing her backlog of work while her husband is on duty cooking today¡¯s lunch. And we see a group of highschool girls talk about how to lose weight while skipping the terrible school meals and chewing bugers which they have had delivered surreptitiously
....The diverse lunch times of ladies and their lives and stories.
Director's Statement
Ladies¡¯ Lunchtims is a documentary film focusing on women¡¯s lives around the topic of ¡°lunchtime¡±, which involves temporal, spatial, and situational constraint on their lives. The collection of cases varies in the respects of age, occupation and the situation in which they are set. Our primary interest is 3 keywords ? labor, the body and the relationship between them. This film is a work showing how women are managing their life in contemporary South Korea with ¡°lunchtime¡± as a barometer for exploring what makes a better life.
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