Rising star Minha Kim unveils her first lead performance since breaking out in AppleTV+’s prestige drama series Pachinko , playing a young woman accused of murdering a best-selling author in Chun Sun-young’s feature debut A Girl with Closed Eyes . Premiering at the Busan International Film Festival, the yarn unspools as a polished crime thriller bolstered by a raft of strong performances, not least from Kim and Choi Hee-seo, but ultimately let down by some wildly implausible plotting. Set in South Korea’s provincial mountain region of Hongcheon, A Girl with Closed Eyes opens as a young woman calling herself Min-ju (Kim) is caught, smoking gun literally in hand, standing over the bloodied corpse of celebrated writer Jeong Sang-woo (Lee Ki-woo).
Taken in for questioning, she claims that Jeong was responsible for an unsolved kidnapping case from 20 years earlier that serves as the inspiration for his hit novel. She also reveals that she is actually Lee In-seon, the young girl at the center of the kidnapping, but will only explain further to her former classmate Park Min-ju (Choi), a detective in the Seoul police department who recently made headlines for blowing the whistle on her superiors. Park reluctantly returns home for a sit-down with her estranged friend, and before long a cavalcade of secrets, both past and present, is muddying the waters of their relationship and throwing everything relating to this apparent open-and-shut case out the window.
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