Spring - Child Monk takes life of animals out of innocence
A child monk ties a stone to a back of fish. Same plight awaits a frog and a snake. The child monk roams the brook in search of the fish and... More
[HanCinema Korea's Diary] Subtitles: Reading between the Frames 2011/12/31,
It's an obstacle that some are not able to overcome in order to appreciate foreign films. A permanent divide that marks a film as 'alien' and not of your own tongue or cultural frame of reference. It's an intrusive necessity that simultaneously invites and imparts difference on one's viewing experience. 'Reading' a foreign film tampers with the message in order to bridge the language barrier that exists between the spectacle and the spectator. But film is a medium made up of two languages, that which is spoken and heard and that which is seen, but it is the experience as a whole that matters most,...More
Bittersweet Life: Korean cinema's secret popularity in the UK 2011/12/07, Source,
International distribution expert and analyst and former Screen International journalist Robert Mitchell looks at the gulf between artistic and business successes of Korean cinema in the UK.
Ask any cine-literate film-goer, critic, blogger or tweeter in the UK about Korean cinema and you'll be greeted with an enthusiastic response. They will talk of the Hallyu period of the past decade, a wealth of some of the most creative and interesting film-making in the world. They will speak with passion about Park Chan-wook, Kim Ki-duk and Bong Joon-ho.
International festivals like Cannes play a major role in building this awareness. "The route to the international market is through festivals", says Danny PERKINS, CEO of StudioCanal UK, which released Bong's "The Host" and Kim's "3-Iron" amongst other Korean titles. "If a director's film features in one of the bigger festivals it can put them and their work permanently on the map",...More
Kim Ki-duk reaches for a symbolic 'Amen' - and misses 2011/12/01, Source, [Jainnie's CINE KOREA]
A nameless Korean woman wanders through the streets of Venice in Kim Ki-duk's "Amen". Provided by Cinecube
Kim Ki-duk, the reigning king of Korean art house cinema, seems almost defeated in his new low-budget film "Amen", giving us a sluggishly paced, incoherent story of a Korean woman's depressing journey through Europe.
Compared to "Arirang", his self-reflective ode to filmmaking and his 13-year career, which premiered at the same time as the new film, "Amen" feels almost like an afterthought, with the director himself saying in interviews that people who aren't cineastes are not likely to warm to the film,...More
"Arirang" and "The Yellow Sea" play at Mar del Plata 2011/11/09, Source,
Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival is screening Korean films "ARIRANG - Movie", directed by Kim Ki-duk, and "The Yellow Sea", directed by Na Hong-jin during its 26th edition, Nov. 5 – 13.
Screening in the Panorama – Auteurs section, the documentary "ARIRANG - Movie" stars the maverick director Kim Ki-duk who shot the film of himself mainly while holing up in a mountain cabin in the woods. The film previously made its world premiere at the Cannes film festival where it won the Un Certain Regard award,...More
Spring - Child Monk takes life of animals out of innocence
A child monk ties a stone to a back of fish. Same plight awaits a frog and a snake. The child monk roams the brook in search of the fish and the frog as his punishment allotted by the old monk.
Summer - Boy Monk in love learns obsession
The monk is now 17 years old. To the lonely hermitage, a girl comes to convalesce. Before long, warm feelings towards the girl sprouts in the boy's heart. Their ripple in the water turns into an act of love.
Fall - Young Monk in agony of malice
The boy returns to the hermitage in the mountains as a young man in his thirties after committing a murder. The old monk whips him finding the young man attempting suicide in front of the statue of Buddha. Old monk order him to etch the Pranja-parpamitasutra, meanwhile he finds peace in his heart.
Winter - Mature Monk in days of enlightenment
The monk, now in his full maturity retraces his steps to the abandoned hermitage in the mountains. A woman wearing a veil visits the hermitage with a baby. She leaves her baby behind and runs away.
And then spring - Another child monk : cycle of four seasons
The old monk living with another child monk is having a peaceful time in the hermitage...the circle of life keeps on.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring | Community
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