Cycle
From 24.09. To 30.09.2012.
Program of Korean films II
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Films in cycle
Rough Cut
(Yeong-hwa-neun yeong-hwa-da, 2008.)
Directed by: Jang Hoon
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kim Gi-tae
Synopsis:
Lee Kang-pae is a successful local gangster who secretly dreams of becoming a film star. The situation with Soo-ta is almost the opposite. He is a temperamental actor who plays a gangster in his new film. He gets too carried away on the set and physically injures a colleague so the shooting stops. Feeling guilty, he offers a role to the real gangster, whom he accidentally meets, so the shooting can resume. Lee Kang-pae accepts the offer but insists that the fight scenes be real and not scripted....
35 mm, color, 113 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 25.09.2012 AT 19:00
Monday 24.09.2012 AT 18:00
Breathless
(Ddongpari, 2008)
Directed by: Ik-joon Yang
Synopsis:
Director, screenwriter and producer Yang Ik-joon also plays the leading role of Sang-hoon. He works as a debt collector for the mafia so violence and insults are part of his daily routine. Through his unusual friendship with a high school girl, the film questions the causes of violence. In his youth Sang-hoon endured the violence of his own father and the girl he meets shares the same destiny. Her brother wants to join the mafia and her father is a war veteran who is also a violent alcoholic. T...
35 mm, color, 130 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 26.09.2012 AT 19:00
Tuesday 25.09.2012 AT 21:00
Old Partner
(Wonangsori, Južna Koreja, 2008)
Directed by: Chung-ryoul Lee
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ji Jae-woo
Synopsis:
Mr. and Mrs. Lee, an old couple, live on a farm in a remote fertile valley in South Korea. Surviving from their own crops, the eighty year old farmer is very closely connected to his ox, an animal that has been helping him every day for forty years. He spends every day working in the fields, plowing, harvesting or collecting wood for the winter. Now both of them are old and their time together nears its end when the veterinarian finds out that the ox has cancer.
color, 78'
PROJECTION:
Thursday 27.09.2012 AT 19:00
Wednesday 26.09.2012 AT 21:15
My Dear Enemy
(Meotjin haru, 2008.)
Directed by: Yoon-ki Lee
PHOTOGRAPHY: Sang-ho Choi
Synopsis:
Two former lovers meet again in Seoul to settle a debt. Since the day they broke up, he has owed her three and a half million won. Meeting him, she does not even greet him but simply asks for her money. Even though he does not have it, he claims that he can procure it from his friends by the end of the day. She does not believe him and follows him while he uses all of his charm to try and borrow the money.
35 mm, color, 123 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 28.09.2012 AT 19:00
Thursday 27.09.2012 AT 21:00
My Mother the Mermaid
(Ineo gongju, 2004.)
Directed by: Heung-sik Park
PHOTOGRAPHY: Yeong-taek Choi
Synopsis:
Na-young does not have a very happy life. She works in a post office, lives with her parents and the only thing she has to look forward to is her trip to New Zealand. Her mother is a cynical and domineering person who hurts everyone around her with cutting words. Aside from being tormented by his shrewish wife, Na-young’s father does not have any opportunities to express himself and when he disappears one day, the wife does not show any concern for him. Nevertheless, instead of going to New Zela...
35 mm, color, 110 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 29.09.2012 AT 19:00
Friday 28.09.2012 AT 21:00
Samaritan Girl
(Samaria, 2004.)
Directed by: Ki-duk Kim
PHOTOGRAPHY: Sang-jae Sun, Sang-jae Seon
Synopsis:
Wanting to earn money to travel to Europe, two teenage friends become prostitutes. Jae-yeong meets with clients and Yeo-jin finds them, arranges meetings and keeps watch in case of police. One day she does not do her job properly and Jae-yeong jumps out of a window to avoid arrest. She injures herself severely and on her deathbed requests that her friend meet with a client with whom she has fallen in love. He agrees to meet her, but only on the condition that she sleeps with him. This film w...