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Biography Born in 1974, LEE graduated from Dankook University, majoring in film. He also studied at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. He is the director of two short films "Bath House Yong-san" and "Can I Love You?" that received numerous film awards at foreign and domestic film festivals. In "Bath House, Yong-san" , he delicately shows the faint hope and warm smiles in the shabby life of a bathhouse worker. "Can I Love You?" won praise for finely expressing the subtle sensibility between a man and woman. Bewitching Attraction, his feature debut film is based on his screenplay that received the Grand Prize under the title "Jealousy is a Battle!" in KOFIC's 2003 Script Contest. LEE is renowned for his distinctive directing style that humorously shows the subtle emotions of tranquility in his short films. He continues to pursue his own style in this full-length film. He is a director who knows the joy that comes from the moment his directing perfectly corresponds to the audience's response, and he will continue to communicate with audiences through this film. Source Open the link | |
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7th Seoul Film Festival Starts Sept. 8 (Source)
Bewitched (Source)
'Attraction' Bewitches Only Few Fans (Source)
[MOVIE REVIEW]'Bewitching Attraction' delves into hypocritical human nature (Source)
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The 7th Seoul Net and Film Festival, known collectively as SENEF, will run this September 8 to 17 at venues in central Seoul. While the internet component of the festival has been running online since May, the newly named and expanded Seoul Film Festival will screen a diverse range of international films in both conventional and digital formats, along with a special selection of Korean films by first-time directors. Both the international and the Korean sections will offer cash awards of US$6000 and US$5000 respectively, with an international jury selecting the winners.
The opening film will be Turkish production Climates, by Cannes Grand Prix winning director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. A special section called 'Asia in Focus' will present six films from Asian countries including Taiwan, the Philippines, and Lebanon, as selected from 'Best 5'lists provided by several top Asian film critics and festival directors.
Korean films showcased in this year's newly added competition section 'Firs...| More |
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by Seung-Jae Lee
"Bewitching Attraction", released on March 16, is a movie name designed to seduce filmgoers. Together with a poster of its characters in suggestive poses, the movie promises naughtiness.
Of course, there's the standard fare of tumbles in bed and lots of skin. But to get to the conclusion, the poster is a misrepresentation. The film doesn't heat up your blood; it makes your temples throb trying to figure things out.
Eun-suk (Moon So-ri) is a professor of fabric dyeing and a green activist in a small province, enjoying the endless line of adoring men at her feet. Eun-suk has an affair with a married man named Kim PD (Park Won-sang) at a television station, but rejects the entreaties of elementary school teacher Yoo (Yoo Seung-mok), who loves her. One day, a lecturer of drawing named Seok-gyu (Ji Jin-hee) comes to the same university. Eun-suk is in a state of consternation, as Seok-gyu has her past, every nook and cranny, searched.
To tell you the truth, there...| More |
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By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter
"Bewitching Attraction (Yogyosu-ui Unmilhan Maeryok)" is a black comedy that pokes fun at those who pretend to be elegant in their seemingly noble positions but actually seek carnal desires.
The film's unconventional methods of bringing audiences to laughter seems its true bewitching attraction, but it could be a totally different movie than you expect if you get an idea what it might be about from its sexually explicit posters that promote the film as a light adult comedy.
Starring Moon So-ri and Ji Jin-hee, the movie revolves around Cho Eun-suk (played by Moon), a professor at a rural college teaching fabric dyeing who leads a duel life.
She loves being at the center of men's attention and she has a talent in seducing men and enjoys sleeping around as well.
To hide her secret life in her well-recognized profession, she comes up with her own measures such as wearing glasses to look intelligent, reciting poems and joining a local environme...| More |
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It is just remarkable that a marketing company still promotes "Bewitching Attraction" (Yeogyosu-ui eunmilhan maeryeok) as a new romantic comedy, featuring Moon So-ri, an award-winning star known for her sophisticated and dedicated acting.
The film, a feature debut by Lee Ha, is not romantic. Nor is it comic in the way typical light-hearted romantic comedy entertains audiences. Despite the misleading marketing strategy, the movie is occasionally funny, and the director's disturbing and thought-provoking take on the hypocritical characters is, well, entertaining in a way.
Eun-suk (Moon So-ri) is a sexy professor in a rural university. But the character is not only voluptuous but also multilayered. She specializes in dye - the very cause of pollution - at the obscure school, but preaches the virtue of preserving the environment as an ardent green activist.
On the face of it, she seems arrogant and aloof. But she does not hide her sexual passion: she goes for casual yet passionate...| More |
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Eleven feature films and five short films from Korea will screen in the upcoming Vancouver International Film Festival, scheduled to take place from 25 September to October 10. Programmed by British film critic Tony RAYNS, the selection features a wide range of critically acclaimed arthouse work and groundbreaking commercial features. The festival will also screen a newly resubtitled print of auteur JANG Sun-woo's latest work, Resurrection of the Little Match Girl.
Save the Green Planet and Invisible Light, both by first-time filmmakers, will also compete in the festival's Dragons & Tigers Competition for Young Asian Cinema. Past winners of the award from Korea include HONG Sang-soo for The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well and LEE Chang-dong for Green Fish.
A full list of the Korean films screening in the event is given below. For more information, visit the festival's website at http://www.viff.org
If You Were Me, dir. various
Invisible Light, dir. Gina KIM
Jealousy is My Mid...| More |
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