‘Triangle of Sadness’ Producer Backs Park Syeyoung’s Memory-Bending Love Motel Drama ‘Satellite of Love’ at Busan Asian Project Market

A woman who has spent a decade shut inside a room at a rural love motel, waiting for the man who left her, discovers that the motel has been staging her love life all along in “Satellite of Love,” the fourth feature from South Korean filmmaker Park Syeyoung (“The Fin”). The project is part of […] Park Syeyoung’s Busan Asian Project Market title ‘Satellite of Love’ is a love-motel drama about memory and manufactured emotion. A woman who has spent a decade shut inside a room at a rural love motel, waiting for the man who left her, discovers that the motel has been staging her love life all along in “Satellite of Love,” the fourth feature from South Korean filmmaker Park Syeyoung (“The Fin”).

The project is part of the Asian Project Market, which runs within the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM). The motel sits among reed beds and woods, its rooms echoing with lovers every night. When her lover walks out, the woman insists he come back in 10 years, to the day and the hour. He says no. She stays put regardless, never leaving the room and cycling through the same chores – eating, washing up, laundering