“Nobody's Daughter Haewon” had its world premiere at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, and was chosen to be part of the line-up for the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival. Additionally, it was honored with awards and nominations at the Buil Film Awards and Korean Association of Film Critics Awards, among others.
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The movie presents the experiences of a young woman named Haewon (Jung Eun-chae) over a span of a few days. The starting point of the story is the information that her mother (Kim Ja-ok) is moving to Canada, which causes Haewon's descent into sorrow. During this challenging time, she gets in touch with her former lover, Lee Seong-joon (Lee Sun-kyun), a married man who is a professor at her university.
Hong Sang-soo decides to raise subjects not only typical for him, such as loneliness, disconnection, and romantic turmoil,...
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The movie presents the experiences of a young woman named Haewon (Jung Eun-chae) over a span of a few days. The starting point of the story is the information that her mother (Kim Ja-ok) is moving to Canada, which causes Haewon's descent into sorrow. During this challenging time, she gets in touch with her former lover, Lee Seong-joon (Lee Sun-kyun), a married man who is a professor at her university.
Hong Sang-soo decides to raise subjects not only typical for him, such as loneliness, disconnection, and romantic turmoil,...
- 1/24/2024
- by Tobiasz Dunin
- AsianMoviePulse
South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun, best known for his role in the Oscar-winning film “Parasite,” has died in an apparent suicide, South Korean police told NBC News on December 27. He was 48.
Lee’s body was discovered December 27 by authorities in his car parked on a street in northern Seoul. Police were searching for Lee after his family reported him missing, per NBC News. A cause of death hasn’t officially been ruled upon, but Lee reportedly left a message similar to a suicide note before his disappearance, and a charcoal briquette, commonly used in South Korea to induce suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, was discovered in the passenger seat.
In the U.S., Lee was best known for his work in Bong Joon-Ho’s 2019 class satire “Parasite.” In the film, Lee plays Park Dong-ik, a wealthy man whose family is unknowingly the target of a poorer family’s schemes for employment.
Lee’s body was discovered December 27 by authorities in his car parked on a street in northern Seoul. Police were searching for Lee after his family reported him missing, per NBC News. A cause of death hasn’t officially been ruled upon, but Lee reportedly left a message similar to a suicide note before his disappearance, and a charcoal briquette, commonly used in South Korea to induce suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, was discovered in the passenger seat.
In the U.S., Lee was best known for his work in Bong Joon-Ho’s 2019 class satire “Parasite.” In the film, Lee plays Park Dong-ik, a wealthy man whose family is unknowingly the target of a poorer family’s schemes for employment.
- 12/27/2023
- by Wilson Chapman and Erin Strecker
- Indiewire
2023 has taken many beloved actors from us and, in a shocking development, one more name has been added to the list to close out the year. Lee Sun-kyun, the actor best known to Western audiences for playing the role of wealthy family patriarch Dong Ik in director Bong Joon-ho's hit film "Parasite," sadly passed away Wednesday morning in Seoul (local time). The circumstances of the tragedy are complicated by a nationwide crackdown on illicit drug use in South Korea, which has led to allegations and investigations involving several high-profile public figures, including Lee. According to the New York Times, the death is being treated as a suicide. He was only 48 years old.
Although he rose to prominence internationally for starring in the Best Picture-winning film in 2019, Lee had built up a strong and successful career in both television and film throughout the years leading up to his breakthrough performance.
Although he rose to prominence internationally for starring in the Best Picture-winning film in 2019, Lee had built up a strong and successful career in both television and film throughout the years leading up to his breakthrough performance.
- 12/27/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
A few years ago, actor Lee Sun-kyun had a major role in a film that made history: director Bong Joon-ho’s dark comedy thriller Parasite, which racked up multiple Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. It was the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. But now Lee’s life has come to a tragic early end. South Korea’s emergency office has confirmed that Lee has passed away at the age of 48, and it’s suspected that he committed suicide.
As Deadline notes, since October Lee had been “under investigation after drug use allegations amid an ongoing crackdown on illegal drugs by the South Korean government. Local news service Yonhap reported that Lee had been questioned multiple times by authorities, including for 19 hours this past weekend. The actor had said he was tricked into taking drugs.” Lee...
As Deadline notes, since October Lee had been “under investigation after drug use allegations amid an ongoing crackdown on illegal drugs by the South Korean government. Local news service Yonhap reported that Lee had been questioned multiple times by authorities, including for 19 hours this past weekend. The actor had said he was tricked into taking drugs.” Lee...
- 12/27/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Distributor previously acquired South Korean auteur’s 2020 Silver Bear winner The Woman Who Ran.
Cinema Guild has acquired all US rights to Hong Sangsoo’s Introduction which premiered in competition in Berlin this week.
Hong’s latest film explores the interconnected lives of young people on the verge of adulthood and stars Shin Seokho, Park Miso, Kim Youngho, and Ki Joobong.
‘Introduction’: Berlin Review
The film currently shares the lead in Screen’s jury grid with Mr Bachmann And His Class.
Cinema Guild, which acquired Hong’s 2020 Silver Bear winner The Woman Who Ran last year, plans a festival...
Cinema Guild has acquired all US rights to Hong Sangsoo’s Introduction which premiered in competition in Berlin this week.
Hong’s latest film explores the interconnected lives of young people on the verge of adulthood and stars Shin Seokho, Park Miso, Kim Youngho, and Ki Joobong.
‘Introduction’: Berlin Review
The film currently shares the lead in Screen’s jury grid with Mr Bachmann And His Class.
Cinema Guild, which acquired Hong’s 2020 Silver Bear winner The Woman Who Ran last year, plans a festival...
- 3/3/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
First paragraphs of Hong Sang-soo reviews often dwell on the Korean master’s penchant for self-repetition, soothing readers that narrow expectations will be fulfilled. Let’s take a different course. This new work, Introduction, which charts a variety of fraught social “introductions” across different relationships, caused reflection on my first impressions of a director who’d soon become a reliable favorite, before any expectations could be tweaked or swerved. That film, 2013’s Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, made me think I was observing one of the chintziest, lowest-fidelity trifles imaginable, one hilarious fake-out gag with Jane Birkin notwithstanding. What might an unsuspecting viewer confronted with this film make of its unfriendly visage?
Knowing Hong and his temperament, it’s unlikely he’s too bothered. After initially breaking through with French co-productions in the 2000s, everything since––his reputation-crowning work, actually––has been self-financed and self-produced with little monetary risk incurred. Few auteurs...
Knowing Hong and his temperament, it’s unlikely he’s too bothered. After initially breaking through with French co-productions in the 2000s, everything since––his reputation-crowning work, actually––has been self-financed and self-produced with little monetary risk incurred. Few auteurs...
- 3/2/2021
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
Not unlike previous years, Nyff programming team with Kent Jones as the top curator have gone with an auteur friendly, Croisette heavy line-up with some of the best Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin, Claire Denis’ Bastards, Coen Bros.’ Inside Llewyn Davis and Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color) and worst (Desplechin’s Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian and James Gray’s The Immigrant) from Cannes. With the exception of the showcased titles (examples Her, Captain Phillips and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), NYFF51 (09.27-10.13) is pretty much a carbon copy of the Tiff with the likes of Locarno and Venice preemed films from Tsai Ming-liang, Catherine Breillat, Corneliu Porumboiu and Hayao Miyazaki being top filmmakers to keep an eye out for. Here’s the complete Main Slate line-up:
About Time (2013) 123min – Director: Richard Curtis
Abuse Of Weakness (Abus de Faiblesse) (2013) 105min – Director: Catherine Breillat...
About Time (2013) 123min – Director: Richard Curtis
Abuse Of Weakness (Abus de Faiblesse) (2013) 105min – Director: Catherine Breillat...
- 8/19/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The fall film festival circuit has grown by leaps and bounds as we scrutinize the likes of the Toronto, Venice and Telluride Film Festival selections and New York has just upped the ante even further. The fest already set Paul Greengrass' Captain Phillips as its opener, Spike Jonze's Her as its closer and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as its centerpiece selection. With the secret screening still a question mark (will it be Martin Scorese's The Wolf of Wall Streetc) the fest has just announced 51 more titles that will be making an appearance and many are standouts from this year's Cannes Film Festival that had so far avoided Toronto and Venice. Among the titles that premiered at Cannes you have Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis (read my "A+" review here), J.C. Chandor's All is Lost starring Robert Redford (read my "A+" review here...
- 8/19/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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