Jung Sung-il has divided his film about Im Kwon-taek into two parts. This distinction is not simply a convenient decision (due to the long running time). The stories in the first part Gravity of the Tea, continue sequentially into Cloud, Encore, but the two films are completely different because of the difference in approach. While the first part moves in a linear transverse through time, the second part is a longitudinal movie that stands still for one moment and looks deep into the well of time. Gravity of the Tea is an Im Kwon-taek masterpiece (embracing the long time it took between his birth and the filming of the 102nd movie Revivre). The film, without taking a single shot of Im Kwon-taek’s (formal) interview and without using any images of the past, draws a cinematic portrait of life sometimes elegant, deliberate, and sometimes as sharp and contemporary. The drawing is accompanied by a certain amount of freedom and depth that those who have kept preparing for a target over and over again for nearly 30 years will appreciate. (Byun Sungchan)