The film's identity puzzle
Bae Hyeon Seong plays Sun Woo, who returns home after nine missing years. His mother So Young has coped by interacting with an AI version of him as a child, then becomes uneasy about whether the young man now living with her is really the son she lost.
What the poster adds
The main image overlays a mine shaft across So Young's face, with a figure moving into the darkness. The design visualizes her inward search and the film's question about what truth lies behind the familiar face that has returned.
Festival path and release
Paradise Lost was invited to Toronto's Special Presentations section and held its world premiere there in September. The newly reported domestic theatrical date is October 21; the poster reveal does not change that schedule.
Update note: Original source-read Korean film briefing connecting the new poster's imagery to the verified premise, festival history and theatrical date.
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