Maundy Thursday is the Thursday before Good Friday (on the Christian calendar). This film is also called: Our Happy Times.
Lee Nah Young (a beautiful Korean actress) plays an art professor who, as a favor to her Aunt (who is a nun who works with prison inmates), visits a lonely inmate at a prison who has been condemned to death for raping and murdering a woman. As she continues visiting him, she learns of his life story of economic deprivation, violence and cruelty. She also learns that he is not completely guilty of the crimes he has been accused of.
An emotional relationship develops between the condemned man and the professor which invites the professor to revisit painful moments in her own life and challenges her to grow.
This is an amazingly beautiful and humane film - one of my favorite films ever.
Please enjoy Maundy Thursday. Thankfully someone posted this on youtube, but you'll have to watch it in 10 minute chunks. It's worth it, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfa41CWhdck&list=PL0DAE6059903CD81B
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