Poetry
December 21, 2023
Movie Motion has acquired and can launch in summer season 2024 a four-film assortment of Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s options, together with Inexperienced Fish, Peppermint Sweet, Oasis and Poetry. All characteristic 4K restorations.
The discharge will likely be preceded by theatrical screenings of the brand new restorations in choose theaters in North America within the spring.
After his debut as a novelist in 1983, and his early forays as a screenwriter and assistant director, Lee Chang-dong made his directing debut with Inexperienced Fish in 1996 and shortly grew to become certainly one of Korea’s most lauded auteurs, taking his place alongside Bong Joon-ho, Park Chan Wook, Kim Ki-duk and others as one of many leaders of Korean New Wave cinema. His movies characteristic darkish tales of innocence misplaced, struggling, alienation, tragedy, psychological trauma and doomed romances and intricately woven narratives specializing in advanced characters from the corners of society.
In Inexperienced Fish (1996), after his necessary army service, naïve younger Makdong (Han Suk-kyu), returns dwelling to an Ilsan he now not acknowledges — a uninteresting metropolis that has quickly modernized and gentrified in his absence. When he crosses paths with a younger lady being harassed at a prepare station, his life takes an surprising flip when he’s lured into the underworld of legal gangs, with the promise of fabric consolation past his creativeness. Unprepared for this surroundings of violence and exploitation, Mak-dong should face the dire penalties of his selections. Inexperienced Fish captured the Finest Movie and Finest New Director Awards from the Korean Movie Critics Affiliation and on the Blue Dragon Awards.
Peppermint Sweet (1999) — Lee’s second directorial characteristic — spans 20 years within the life of 1 man, Yongho, from his callow teenagers by his fraught, self-hating center age. Introduced in seven chapters in reverse-chronological order, the movie begins with Yongho’s premature suicide and ends with a primary date filled with the promise and verve of youth. The moments in between these occasions as seen by lens of Yongho’s life observe South Korea’s fraught political historical past through the late twentieth century, and in flip elegize a era of marginalized folks. An Official Choice of the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes, and quite a few different notable fests, it received the Particular Prize of the Jury on the Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Competition.
In Oasis (2002), after serving time for killing a person in a hit-and-run automotive accident, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) is launched with no cash and nowhere to go. His household has deserted him, and whereas attempting to make amends, he meets Han Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), his sufferer’s grownup daughter. She is wheelchair-bound resulting from cerebral palsy and all however deserted in an inexpensive condominium by her callous household. Gong-ju’s innate tenderness appeals to the uncontrollably impulsive Jong-du, and the pair start an inconceivable relationship. The movie was the winner of the Silver Lion for Finest Director and Finest Younger Actress on the Venice Movie Competition. It additionally received the FIPRESCI Prize and was nominated for Finest Movie on the Impartial Spirit Awards.
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Within the drama Poetry (2010) — winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury — Particular Point out and Finest Screenplay at Cannes — Korean grandmother Mija involves phrases with the early onset of Alzheimer’s whereas coping with the fallout from a brutal household crime. Her teenage grandson is linked to the violent demise of a woman, and he or she finds herself caught up in a conspiracy to pay hush cash to the useless woman’s household. Mija’s tendency to turn out to be misplaced in poetry, and the wonders of nature, causes her thoughts to wander on the incorrect time, with unlucky penalties.
