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Korea’s making a big showing at the Berlin Film Festival, with nine films headed abroad, in competition for jury prizes. A few are films we’ve talked about for a while, like Late Autumn, while a good number of them are experimental films or shorts that are more artistically adventurous.
Here’s a list of the films in competition at Berlinale:
Love Me, Love Me Not, by director Lee Yoon-ki, starring Hyun Bin and Im Soo-jung in a melodrama about a married couple on the brink of divorce.
Bad Deal, starring Hwang Jung-min and Ryu Seung-beom, about a frustrating murder case that leads a prosecutor and a detective to act outside the law. These two are always good, and even better together. (TRAILER)
Ashamed, starring Kim Hyo-jin (Mary Stayed Out All Night) and Kim KKot-bi as a lesbian couple. Kim Hyo-jin’s character attempts suicide but falls in love and embarks on a new journey. (REVIEW)
Dance Town, which stars Ra Mi-ran and Oh Sang-tae in director Jung Kyu-hwan‘s third film to follow 2008′s Mozart Town and 2009′s Animal Town. They seem to all be vignette films; Mozart Town for instance is about the lives of various people who intersect in one city. (REVIEW
Late Autumn (also 만추/Manchu), a remake of the 60s classic starring Hyun Bin and Tang Wei. This is the screening that sold out in five seconds at the Pusan International Film Festival.
Cheonggyocheon Medley: A Dream of Iron, by director Park Kyung-kun (also listed as Kelvin Park) sounds like an avant-garde piece. From the official synopsis: “The narrator writes a letter to the ghost of his grandfather wondering if his recurring childhood nightmare of rusted metallic image is related to the family history…The film attempts to reveal how we shape the metal through techniques such as sand casting and milling machines, only to find out that metals had already shaped us into beings of an industrial society instead.” (TRAILER)
Self Contradiction: Current Mentality and Participation in Reality by director Kim Sun, one half of the production company Goksa, along with his twin brother Kim Gok. They are renowned experimental filmmakers whose work has been shown at festivals worldwide.
And another brother pair: Park Chan-wook (Old Boy) directed a short with his younger brother Park Chan-kyung called Ups and Downs [파란만장] as in a life full of ups and downs. (Poster below.) This is a short that they filmed with an iPhone. Seriously. Only Park Chan-wook could film something on an iPhone and have the world call it art. (TEASER TRAILER)
Broken Night by Yang Hyo-joo is a short about a traffic accident that keeps complicating those involved.
The 61st Berlin International Film Festival runs February 10-20.
Source: Herald M
Via: dramabeans
Bad Deal looks GREAT.
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Date: 2011-01-24 02:12 pm (UTC)And I HAVE NETFLIX, but wonder which one is available to watch.
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Date: 2011-01-24 02:20 pm (UTC)kill yourself, miny
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Date: 2011-01-25 04:20 pm (UTC)It is kind of hard and inconvenient to get tickets. There's one central point of sale inside the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden, you can buy tickets only three days in advance of a screening (expect for the last day of the Berlinale), and the queues are very very long, especially in the afternoon. Tickets for the less avantgarde films (read: anything with better known actors or directors) and for movies running in the competition tend to sell out very quickly. You can also try to buy tickets on the day of a screening in the theater but the queues there are even longer and chances are much slimmer.
I try to see the whole ticket buying adventure as part of the Berlinale experience ;) I've been very lucky with getting tickets because I don't watch the big films that end up being released in theaters nationwide anyway. If you want to see Hollywood stars, don't buy a ticket for the movie premiere but go to the red carpet outside the cinema instead. It's free and so much more fun than actually seeing the movie :)
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Date: 2011-01-25 04:32 pm (UTC)Are you going alone or with friends?
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Date: 2011-01-25 01:57 pm (UTC)but i really wanna go this time! there's a lot of stuff i wanna see.. .__.
i have to work though. so yeah. guess no Berlin for me. D:
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Date: 2011-01-24 04:30 pm (UTC)*add to movie list*
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Date: 2011-01-24 06:18 pm (UTC)I've been wanting to see Late autumn since I first heard about it. Hyun Bin, Tang Wei... can life get any more perfect?
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Date: 2011-01-24 07:19 pm (UTC)I'm going to Düsseldorf a week before Berlinale though. Wrong week, wrong city ;_;
Aside of that, some of these films look good, I'll probably watch them when I can ^^
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Date: 2011-02-08 12:31 am (UTC)I watched it recently and it was quite an eye-opener.
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