Original title: The Poetry of Lee Chang-Dong
Year: 1997-2010
Country: South Korea
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 810161480371
Image: 1.85:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio:
Korean DTS-HD MA 2.0, 5.1
Subtitles: English Subtitles
Rating: Not Rated
Genre: Drama
Cast: Yun Junghee, Lee David, Kim Hira, Sol Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Han Suk-kyu, Shim Hye-jin, Moon Sung-Keun, Yu-Kyeong Cha, Song Kang-ho
Director: Lee Chang Dong
Synopsis:
Filmmaker, playwright and novelist Lee Chang-dong is one of South Korea's most celebrated artists as well as one of its harshest critics. Newly restored in 4K, this collection of four of his early works reveals the poetic origins of a cinematic career that is uniquely “marked by a fascination with pain and longing” (IndieWire).
In his directorial debut, GREEN FISH (1997), Lee uses the conventions of film noir to explore the story of a young man who becomes trapped in a dangerous love triangle with the girlfriend of his employer, a local mob boss. Opening on a shocking scene of implied suicide, Lee's sophomore feature PEPPERMINT CANDY (1999) proceeds to move backward in time, revealing the unhappiness of its protagonist in reverse chronology. In OASIS (2002), two societal outcasts become unlikely soulmates when an irresponsible ex-con befriends a woman with severe cerebral palsy. Following a matriarch who finds her capacity as a caregiver threatened by Alzheimer's disease, POETRY (2010) features a Cannes award-winning screenplay by Lee and an achingly vulnerable performance by legendary actress Yun Jung-hee in a role he specifically penned for her.
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Additional info:
OASIS
PEPPERMINT CANDY
POETRY
GREEN FISH
