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A Bittersweet Life, Crying Fist, The President's Last Bang, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Welcome to Dongmakgol, and more. The year 2. 00. 5 turned out to be somewhat of a rejuvenation after the comparatively weak offerings of 2.
Critics seemed happy as well, with films such as Hong Sang- soo's Tale of Cinema, Im Sang- soo's The President's Last Bang, and Lee Yoon- ki's This Charming Girl providing much to talk about in addition to the above. Smith (US)3,5. 46,9.
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Feathers in the Wind). Sometimes small- scale, informal projects can liberate a director. In Song's other works, such elements sometimes feel forced or self- consciously arty, but here they blend with the otherworldly presence of the island and add a sense of mystery. Git (which means either a triangular flag or .
At 7. 0 minutes, it is a perfectly respectable length for a stand- alone feature film, and this is a movie that deserves to travel. In his younger days, Cho- won was prone to tantrums and violence against himself, but the special school his mother enrolled him in and the different athletic activities she taught him eventually helped Cho- won to cope with the world around him. When asked by a swimming instructor if she has any wish for herself, she replies that she wishes to die a day after Cho- won. Bae is an accomplished athlete and many of the events of his childhood are depicted accurately on screen. It is an eye- opening performance the likes of which has seldom been seen in Korean cinema, especially melodramas that often push the actor's emotive capacity to maximum overdrive. Antarctic Journal had been a long- gestating pet project for the young director Im Pil- sung, whose short films including Baby (1.
Souvenir (1. 99. 7) received much critical kudos. Antarctic Journal has its share of problems but neither its stars nor its technical staff can really be blamed for them. The real issue is that the film's mysteries are neither grounded in its characters nor anchored in its narrative design: we are given a lot of pieces of puzzle, which refuse to add up to a picture. And I noticed something when I tile- d up my screen with the image of Hong Sangsoo's Tale of Cinema that is the left- center image at the top of this 2. And what better way to demonstrate Hong's trope of the come- here/go- away ambivalence of his characters. Initially, Hong is polite and demure to the point of idiocy against Yu- rim's lecherous advances, which quickly runs the gamut between workplace sexual harassment to outright date rape. However, the tables are turned in an unexpected way when Yu- rim accidentally runs into Hong's personal secrets, and when the details of their .
My reaction to Rules of Dating is similar to one I had to Im Sang- soo's Good Lawyer's Wife. Both films are sexually frank, morally challenging, quite funny and moving at times and driven by great performances by male and female leads. The screenplay cried out for the kind of expressionist cinematic technique counterpointing the absurdity and nastiness of the superficially . And the movie appears to ultimately hedge its bets regarding the possibility of a real romance brewing out of such politically and emotionally charged set- ups, involving sexual abuse, invasion of privacy and manipulation of ethics codes. Don't ask me why) lying about inside a subway car. Not only have this pair of shoes apparently performed wholly unnecessary amputation surgeries on the select individuals foolish enough to don them, they also become objects of unhealthy obsession for the ballet- dancing tyke Tae- soo.
Caught between the cold bastard of a husband and the cocky and smarmy boyfriend, she could be seen as a portrait of a contemporary Korean woman yearning for self- realization and fulfillment of basic desires, even at the risk of destroying her family and social life. Lighting and sound design are superbly done, however, working with the muted, toned down palette and showing admirable restraint in illustrating the presence of the supernatural. Then, in the following months, these films see a video/DVD release and finally, begin appearing on television. It is a completely fictitious tale told in the style of a serious documentary. The ghost makes surprisingly few appearances but they are enough to send a curious documentary crew to research the apparition.
Their quest to identify the ghost sends them across the nation and into the realm of insanity and terror as they discover that the shoddy investigation techniques of the police decades earlier may have left a mass murderer free to roam the streets. That evaluation remains true after a second viewing a year later. The calm, matter- of- fact manner demonstrated by the ghost hunting crew helps to add a sense of journalistic realism to the film. The sole exception is a scene with a shaman and the resulting confusion of this short segment threatens to derail the carefully built up atmosphere. Vengeance (2. 00. Oldboy (2. 00. 3), three movies with strikingly different plotlines and characters.
Baek (Choi Min- sik, star of Oldboy), the orchestrator of the kidnap scheme for which she was arrested and convicted. She half- threatens, half- cajoles her former fellow inmates to help her carry out the revenge. The second section deals with Geum- ja's implementation of the plan, the scope of which expands to include the retired detective once assigned to her case (veteran actor Nam Il- woo), Jenny, her estranged daughter adopted by an Australian couple, and a host of other characters. Lady Vengeance is clearly a work of a major artist, evolving before our eyes and improving his finesse. Furie's take of Michael Caine in Ipcress File (1. Vengeance), reunited from Oldboy, had an even tougher job in Lady Vengeance, as it includes more shifts in color and tone, beginning with the slightly garish and jaundicedly .
Production design recreates the unmistakable universe of Park Chan- wook, based on the recognizable clutter of everyday life, but ever so slightly alien, hypnotically unnerving, including Geum- ja's scarlet den complete with an altar flanked by crimson candles. Vengeance or Oldboy may well be the very factor that might grant it a wider acceptance in North America and Europe. Its narrative might strike other viewers as meandering and unfocused. Yet others might take issue with the subplot involving Geum- ja's daughter. In ignoscendo ignoscimur. One jaw- dropping sequence involving a boar, especially, (possibly an homage to Princess Mononoke) will be talked over in word- of- mouth across the world. A crackling murder mystery plot combines with drop- dead hilarious comedy, social satire and a dash of romantic fantasy to create an intimidatingly fizzy but immensely intoxicating witch's brew.
Think Lieutenant Columbo wandering into Twin Peaks, with characters speaking lines written by Neil Simon. Director Won Sin- yeon, who made the award- winning short Bread and Milk, takes time in setting up the relationship between the sisters and building up the atmosphere of dread and despair. Unfortunately, like almost all Korean horror films I have seen in recent years, The Wig noisily deconstructs itself in the final reel, as it gets caught up in a rush toward stitching together loose plot threads. Lovecraft sensibility of Suzuki Koji's novels).
Seong Hyeon- a and other actors do a fine, if not particularly memorable, job of keeping the dramatic intensity at the correct level of pitch. Sympathy, I have to say that this is a gift I'd refuse regardless of the time of year when it's presented, in August or in April.
She has so much visceral talent, and she's so convincing in her role that, ironically, it's easy to overlook her performance. Oh is clearly the most beautiful woman in the film. The Unforgiven is not without flaws, of course. Far more powerful than the J.
S. A- like coda preceding the end credits, this scene is one of the most painfully honest renderings of young Korean men I have seen in a Korean film, whose souls are eaten away by the price they paid for having . It seems that someone is killing off junior high school kids. Autopsies reveal a capsule inside the stomach of each victim, containing a torn page from a diary of some sorts. Investigating a possible connection with the murder case at a hospital, Detective Choo runs into an old friend (Kim Yun- jin, now a bona fide American star thanks to the TV series Lost), strangely distant after all these years. As Choo and Kim investigate the whereabouts of the diary and the identity of its author, they begin to realize that there is a thread connecting the murder victims, involving the extended harassment and torture of one particular boy by his classmates.
Bystanders, the second film directed by Im Kyung- soo (responsible for the intermittently funny high- concept satire Can't Live Without Robbery) from a screenplay by Ko Jung- woon, adapted for screen by Im, Lee Man- hee (Wild Card), Im Eui- young and Lee Kang- min, is a halfway decent effort gutsy enough to lay all its cards on the table in the first twenty minutes. There is little mystery to the identity of the killer, or the motive behind its murders. Director Im, writer Ko and the crew instead choose to explore the psychological and moral underpinnings of the main characters, in a sense letting the dramatis personae rather than the plot serve as the engine to push forward the narrative. Bystanders also attempts to walk the tightrope between its indictment of societal evil, in this case the so- called wangtta (used to be known as ijime, based on the Japanese word for .
Nice going, but the movie falls down splat on the floor in the final reel. Let me just observe that the filmmakers abruptly insert a truly stupid coincidence in the plot, solely for the purpose of crushing one character with a Titanic- sized sense of guilt, and proceed to ape the conclusion of Seven in the most anti- maternalist manner possible.
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