Kim Min-hee thanks Hong Sang-Soo in Berlin

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

South Korea's Kim Min-hee won best actress at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday for a film exploring the meaning of love through unconventional relationships.

She took the Silver Bear for Best Actress for "On the Beach at Night Alone," beating tough competition from 17 other films. She became the first Korean to clinch the honor at the Berlinale. In the film, she plays the role of Young-hee, an actress pondering her relationship with a married movie director while drinking together with friends in a seaside town shortly after returning from a trip to Germany.

"This film will hopefully bring great emotions for those who see it and therefore I'm very proud of it," Kim said during her acceptance speech. "This award that I receive here and this happiness that I feel is all thanks to Hong sang-soo, my director in this movie. I honor you and I love you."

This is Hong's 19th feature film and third foray to the Berlinale after "Night and Day" (2008) and "Nobody's Daughter Haewon" (2013).

"On the Beach" earned South Korea the first best actress prize in any of the top three European film festivals in 10 years. Jeon Do-yeon won best actress in the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 for director Lee Chang-dong's "Secret Sunshine." In 2010, Hong's "Hahaha" won the Cannes' fringe "Un Certain Regard" category.

"On the Beach" is set to open in local theaters next month. It also stars Jung Jae-young, Kwon Hae-hyo, Song Seon-mi and Moon Seong-geun.


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[turtles-tszx.livejournal.com]

Smh gurl....

[sanctuairee.livejournal.com]

she plays the role of Young-hee, an actress pondering her relationship with a married movie director

so.. herself?

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

from what I hear of it it's so painfully about them that the audience gets uncomfortable watching it haha
apparently there's a scene where she kneels and bows to an older woman who's clearly meant to represent hong sang soo's wife and another where she talks about not caring about a man's looks again because handsome ones always live up to their face (a dig at her exes who are all like, super hot compared to this shriveled excuse of a person...) and she just wants to do whatever she wants before she dies.
god, hong sang soo does and even looks like woody allen D:

[sanctuairee.livejournal.com]

god reading your comment made me so uncomfortable, i can't imagine sitting through the actual film. that line about not caring about looks is.. lol bc it doesn't seem like sangsoo's got a good personality or character either?

now i'm curious what it was like on set for the cast and crew

[tjmok125.livejournal.com]

Exactly. He looks like he spits out dust when he coughs. I'm baffled.

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

To be fair - Hong SangSoo is a gross cheater but he did not prey on several of his underaged step children.

[miwa201.livejournal.com]

mte

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

oh haha I meant in both are scum and use their movies to justify their shitty shelves - but yeah, i guess hong sang soo is slightly less of a disgusting person compared to woody

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

Is Allen the kind of director where every male lead in his scripts is basically a self insert? I've seen maybe one of his movies so I wouldn't know lmao

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

the very definition of that basically haha, pretty much all of them have that neurotic, pessimistic, self-deprecating persona to them, and get to say all the clever and witty lines in the movie

[ebenetwo.livejournal.com]

as opposed to a man who cheated on his wife and left his daughter....... sounds like an upstanding gentleman

[mmmalvina.livejournal.com]

right? i had to reread it 3 times to understand if they're actually talking about the plot line or just mentioning rumors about her

[sanctuairee.livejournal.com]

lmao once it sunk in i was like, yeah i see why she got an award. is it acting if you're playing yourself? or maybe she's just super method

[mmmalvina.livejournal.com]

loool daniel day-lewis is an amateur compared to her then! what kind of commitment to the ~art??

[zorroark.livejournal.com]

its as if the director wrote a fanfic and inserted himself as the main character

yikes

[callherblondie.livejournal.com]

lol fifty shades of old and crusty

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

lulz that's all his movies tho

[ebenetwo.livejournal.com]

i just looked up his filmography and omg ur not kidding

[pisceanfelt.livejournal.com]

Is there a "yikes" tag?? I think there should be a "yikes" tag...

[tjmok125.livejournal.com]

It must be hard to have self esteem so deficient that you'd purposely sleep with a married man or cheat with a woman young enough to be your daughter.

[callherblondie.livejournal.com]

lol these two messes are so far up their own asses to make a movie about their own pathetic affair to pat themselves on the back for being gross messes

[ebenetwo.livejournal.com]

honestly, if she's still bffs with her i will side-eye her so hard

i have a friend who is messing with a married man with children but apparently they have an open marriage (i mean we only have heard his side of the story and men ain't shit so i'm reluctant to even believe this story).

apparently he has like 2 kids now, only one is his, and they have twins abt to pop out soon and it can't be his cos the timing of conception does not work out cos they have a LDR marriage; and none of them have twins in their lineage

it's so juicy i only plan to still hang around with her just to find out if there's more development on this messiness and secretly hoping it BLOWS UP IN HER FACE

that's the kind of messy bitch who lives for drama friend i am

anyway tl;dr, sorry!

[ebenetwo.livejournal.com]

noooo date the man in my icon instead #OTP

she's really close friends with GY and HJW* too like girl is living the dream, please date any of them

*I know he's not considered conventionally attractive but the man is talented and successful tbh i'd date him

[2cutelena.livejournal.com]

HJW is my number 1 Korean everything only distantly followed by So Ji Sub. Anyone would be blessed to date his handsome and soooo talented self. He's handosome as fuck and those who obviously need some myeyelove.com, can step off and visit their hearse eye doctor.

[ebenetwo.livejournal.com]

omg i didn't spell out their names hahaha sorry

Gong Yoo and Ha Jung Woo. i'm so used to abbreviating them

[jazzygyu.livejournal.com]

I do like some of her movies...and I wanted to like her but just no...i get that looks aren't everything and if she dated someone who may not have been the besting looking but treated her right compared to an ex that didn't, and who wasn't married with kids than i wouldn't have a problem with it. Even the age thing... as creepy as it is she is an adult...

[callherblondie.livejournal.com]

I actually think she's a pretty good actress. Her personal choices as of recently have me rme though. Probably won't watch this movie of hers b/c it sounds boring af and the storyline totally doesn't appeal to me.

Had to break out my Aaliyah judging you icon for this

[bob-dabuilda.livejournal.com]

SMDH Hope he loses all his money in the divorce settlement and that he can never get an erection again so Kim Minhee is miserable.

[afictionjunkie.livejournal.com]

When life imitates art. . .

Such a shame though. I heard she's an incredible actress but her current situation, yikes!

[torontok.livejournal.com]

They're honestly such garbage human beings,it's mind-boggling.

[miyozari.livejournal.com]

ewww berlinale i thought you had better taste, but berlin is a shithole... so i guess it suits them

[lovelyxbeauty.livejournal.com]

Damn... neither of them have any shame do they?

[welljustguess.livejournal.com]

She really shows it. I guess congrats to South Korea for her award, no?

[randomtasks.livejournal.com]

Every time I see her I'm just like Gurl, you literally could have had it all. Look at your life, look at your choices.

How do you go from dating Lee Soo Hyuk, Lee Jung Jae and Jo In Sung to this corpse. It's not like she needed to sleep with the director for the career boost either.