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Directed by Jeon Soo-il (전수일)
Screenplay by Jeon Soo-il (전수일)
93min | Release date in South Korea : 2005/04/15Based on a novel describing modern people's desire to end their lives aesthetically as well as loneliness and emptiness.
A barmaid (Soo-ah) kills herself and her boyfriend, a taxi driver (Kim Young-min) comes to suspect a writer named S(Jeong Bo-seok) who assists people in committing suicide. And a performance artist Mara (Choo Sang-mi) takes he... More
North American Tour of Jeon Soo-Il's Retrospective launches in
Montreal, accompanied by Canadian independent short films Award-winning Korean filmmaker Jeon Soo-Il arrives in Nov. 29th launching his acclaimed Retrospective Tour for the first time in North America! Montreal, November 19, 2009 - Korean independent giant Jeon Soo-Il's works will be introduced to the North American public for the first time at the Cinémathèque Québécoise from November 26 to December 2. Jeon's films have been awarded and featured internationally in film festivals, including the Cannes International Film Festival (Wind Echoing in My Being, 1997), Venice International Film Festival (With a Girl of Black Soil, 2007) and Pusan International Film Festival (Himalaya, 2008). His energetic creativity never stops while teaching film production in Kyungsung University and currently is in production for his 8th film. This retrospective will showcase Jeon's six films at the Cinémathèque Québécoise: "Himalay...| More | |||
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 Middle-aged actress Kim Hae-sook will be the main character of "Viva! Love". This is her first main role in 33 years.Her motherly image changed drastically when she came out as a pickpocket in last year's movie "Open City" and now, she will have a romance with a man 23 years younger than her. This is a comedy telling of the romance between Bong-soon (Kim Hae-sook) and a 21-year-old man. There is interest in Kim Hae-sook's character, who falls in love with her daughter's boyfriend. She has lived her life as a mother and a wife, but she meets her true love, who will be played by Kim Yeong-min. Kim Yeong-min has been in plays, "Hamlet", "Bad Magnet", "Rising Lovely Girl", and movies "My Right to Ravage Myself", "A Cruel Attendance", and "Ad-Lib Night". Kim Hae-sook and Kim Yeong-min are continuing the line of older women, younger men couples, such as Moon So-ri and Bong Tae-gyu from "A Good Lawyer's Wife" and Ko Doo-sim and Eom Tae-woong in "The Birth of a Family". It will pr...| More | |||
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Actor Bae Yong-joon's latest film "April Snow" on January 31st will open the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in France.
"My Right to Ravage Myself" director Jeon Soo-il will also serve as a juror in the festival. In the Fajr International Film Festival opening Friday in Iran, "A Family" will compete in the international film division and "Hello Brother" in the spiritual cinema division. The Asian films category will have the Korean War blockbuster "Taegukgi", "Cracked Eggs and Noodles", "Daddy-Long-Legs" and "Long and Winding Road". Reported by KBS World Radio ...| More | |||
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