Is it acceptable for a Forty-something
woman to be in a relationship with 17
year old boy? The idea of love between
two people with such an age gap and
the social exclusion that it can bring is
the subject of Pascha.

Ga-eul is a 40 year old screenwriter
who lives with 17 year old Joseph and
their cats. The family of the two lovers
cannot comprehend the relationship.
Ga-eul’s family are especially baffled by
every aspect of her life; raising a cat and
living off of vegetables, let alone having a 17-year old lover! Ga-eul’s family
see her as the family’s dirty little secret.
More and more obstacles from society are placed between the lovers and
their happy ever after; poverty, death,
opposition against vegetarianism and
the couples pregnancy. Joseph encapsulates the couple’s plight best;

“I am afraid I might lose courage. There
are just too many things for us to fight
against and what if I can’t say a word,
behaving foolish in front of them?” Can
a love like this survive no matter the
odds in today’s society?

Pascha asks many questions
of not just Korean society but society in general and will have you second guessing many of your assumptions. This is a worth well way to spend
90 mins if you are tired of the standard
Hollywood romantic comedies from an emerging
talent in director Ahn Sun-kyoung.