I Can Speak

I Can Speak (아이 캔 스피크, 2017) — watch online on iFILM — is a South Korean comedy-drama directed by Kim Hyun-seok, with Na Moon-hee and Lee Je-hoon in the leads.

Nok-bun is the terror of her local district office — an elderly woman with a complaint for every regulation and the persistence to file every last one of them. When she decides she needs to learn English, the irritatingly rule-bound young clerk Min-jae is who she turns to. The first half plays this dynamic for warmth and laughs. Then the reason for the English lessons comes to light.

Nok-bun has been carrying something since the 1940s — a story she never got to tell to the people who needed to hear it. Na Moon-hee moves between comedy and devastation without a single false note. Stream I Can Speak online on iFILM.