Martin Edralin on Secret Sunshine

Toronto filmmaker Martin Edralin, whose award-winning first feature Islands plays the TIFF Bell Lightbox tonight (April 12th) through Thursday (April 14th), unpacks the tensions at play in Korean master Lee Chang-dong's almost unbearably empathetic Secret Sunshine, a study of a woman carrying the weight of unimaginable loss that earned star Jeon Do-yeon the Best Actress prize at Cannes in 2007. Your genial host Norm Wilner is braced for impact, and reminds you the first year of the podcast can be yours at payhip.com/semcast for just twenty dollars. That's 52 episodes, 46 of which are unavailable to stream anywhere, including gems like Scott Thompson on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Chandler Levack on Can't Hardly Wait. Just saying.