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Chi-hwa-seon
Im Kwon-Taek's ninety-fifth film tells the story of renowned nineteenth-century painter Jang Seung-up (Choi Min-Sik), an artist whose revolutionary work - and persona - forever changed the face of Korean art. Sweeping yet personal, Chihwaseon paints its pictures in passionate brushstrokes, befitting the life of a tumultuous artist with a lust for ife. |
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In Another Country
Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert stars in a film from South Korean master Hong Sang-soo. In a triptych of overlapping stories, three different French women (a filmmaker, an adulterer and a divorce- Huppert, Huppert and...Huppert) visit a small Korean resort town and encounter a flirtatious director, a lovestruck lifeguard and far too much soju. |
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In Between Days
Award winner at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, IN BETWEEN DAYS conveys "an extraordinary sense of intimacy" in depicting a young Korean immigrant's journey toward self-discovery. |
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Intangible Asset No. 82
After hearing a rare recording of Korean Shaman Kim Seok-Chul's music, Australian drummer Simon Barker commits to find and learn from the enigmatic master. |
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Poetry
A sixty-something woman, faced with a crippling medical diagnosis and the discovery of a heinous family crime, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class. Lee Chang-dong's follow-up to his acclaimed Secret Sunshine is a masterful study of the subtle empowerment — and moral compass — of an elderly woman. |
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The President's Last Bang
Imaginatively recreating the 1979 assassination of South Korean President Park Chung-hee, writer-director Im Sang-soo dares to make complex, realistically neurotic characters out of the most polarizing figures in modern Korean political history. |
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Save the Green Planet
Lee Byeong-Gu (Shin Ha-Gyun, JSA) is a sensitive, blue collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi films whose life has been derailed by one bad break after another. Yet he knows there's no such thing as bad luck. The only thing that could have made such a mess of his life are...aliens. |
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Take Care of My Cat
A surprise hit at festivals from Rotterdam to Toronto, this first time film by a young Korean woman is an original and engaging look at young women trying to navigate the traumatic journey to adulthood. |
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Tell Me Something
A standout among the new wave of suspense thrillers that have broken box-office records in Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong. Dismembered corpses are being found throughout the city, and the killer's motive is a complete mystery. A break opens when Detective Cho is led to a beautiful and enigmatic young artist with whom all the victims have had relations. |
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Untold Scandal
Combining bold erotica, historical detail, and eloquent tragedy, Untold Scandalroots Choderlos de Laclo' Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 19th Century Korea. Previously set in pre-revolutionary France (Dangerous Liaisons) and in a wealthy New York prep school (Cruel Intentions), this version of the timeless Gallic tale of treachery, lust, and sacrifice "may even be the best of the lot" (The Los Angeles Times). |
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