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was a promising graduate of the police academy before she to a quiet and remote seaside town in YeosuSun Do-hee. As Young-nam tries to accommodate with her new surroundings, an accident of Dohee';s grandma getting killed by falling in the seashore cliff happens. As to protect the girl from her stepfather';s abuse, Young-nam let Dohee stay at her place but things turn out to be more mysterious as she gets to know her.
While Jung's efforts to avoid sensationalism and employ multiple threads are very admirable, the result is a mild-mannered piece short of a sufficiently substantial exposition of its plethora of characters and the problem they face.
[Here,] the city slicker is a taciturn lesbian police chief with a scandalous past, a passionate dislike of bullies and a penchant for lonely late-night drinking sessions. She's played, with mesmeric stillness, by rising star Doona Bae.
Though the plotting is by turns too opaque and then ultimately too convoluted to be entirely satisfying as a drama, Bae and Kim are consistently compelling as oppressed characters who find a strange kinship in an intolerant society.
The pic is ultimately held together by the mesmerizing presence of Bae Doo-na in the title role and an equally bracing performance by teen thesp Kim Sae-ron.
A Girl at My Door is not revolutionary or radical cinema, but it gestures towards new and bold representations of kinship and community that are sorely missing in society.