The Enigma of Desire: Decision to Leave

DECISION TO LEAVE (2022, 138min) is a saturated contemporary noir from Korean director Park Chan-Wook which pays homage to VERTIGO by exploring the disorienting origins of desire. A detective's search for answers is disrupted and abetted by his attraction to a mysterious woman, and he ends up contending with scrambled messages within himself about what drives him. 

In this class, we’ll use Dominique Scarfone's elaboration on "the Sexual", French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche’s concept of infantile sexuality, to help us organize our impressions of this bound-breaking film.

This class is taught by guest instructors Francoise Eipper MD and Alice Huang MD of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. Fran and Alice are psychoanalysts and lovers of film. There will be a concurrent course offered through OPC that you can find here.

Class size will be limited to 18.

Questions? Email us at education@moviemadness.org