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"A Bittersweet Life" screening at PUSAN WEST
[2005/120min/35mm/color]
A film-noirish crime action drama, A Bittersweet Life testifies Kim Jee-woons skillful combination of storytelling abilities and an original visual style. He presents a delicate love story embedded under the faade of a cruel world of gangster violence. Sun-woo (Lee, Byung-hun) is an intelligent, cool-headed perfectionist gangster who has climbed to the top by earning the absolute trust of his boss Mr. Kang (Kim Yeong-cheol). When Kang suspects his latest mistress, Heui-su (Shin, Min-a) of having another boyfriend, he orders Sun-woo to keep a close eyes on her and to kill her if she has betrayed him. Things get complicated as Sun-woo slowly falls for Heui-su. The film shows magnificent mise-en-scene, stunning performance of the actors including the lead actor Lee Byung-hun, who was picked up by Hollywood after this film, and brilliantly directed fighting scenes.
Q&A with Director Jee-woon Kim after the screening!
Director Jee-woon Kim loved to draw pictures and comics since the age of three which explains the brilliant visual artistry in his films. However, he had not planned to be a filmmaker until at the age of thirty-four, after ten years of slacker days, he saw an ad in a film magazine looking for a script. He wrote a script titled A Quiet Family within a week, submitted it and got the chance to make it into a movie in 1998. Since then, he has made five feature films including a horror film A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and a western The Good, The Bad and the Weird (2008) which earned him an international reputation of a skillful and inventive genre filmmaker. He continues to rework various genre conventions making truly diverse yet equally fascinating genre variations. The Good, The Bad and the Weird was presented at the Cannes Film Festival out of competition where the film received rave reviews as wacky but utterly entertaining Kimchi Western. He is currently one of the most popular and sought-after filmmakers in Korea.
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LocationChapman Univesity - Dodge College
283 North Cypress Street
Orange, CA 92866
United States
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