Today and tomorrow are the final days of the Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today series at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition, a collaboration of the MoMA and The Korea Society, was made possible by Hyundai Card Company. Here is information about the four remaining films to be shown.
Poongsan / Pung-san-gae
Directed by Jeon Jae-hong
Screenplay by
Kim Ki-duk
With Yoon Kye-sang, Kim Gyu-ri, Kim Jong-soo, Han Gi-jung
South Korea, 2011, 121 minutes
Jeon (Beautiful, 2008) was an assistant to filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, who wrote and produced this film and whose influence is at once palpable and subordinate to Jeon’s own talent. Poongsan, who does not speak, carries messages back and forth between separated families in North and South Korea. When he is enlisted to smuggle the mistress of a high-ranking North Korean defector out of the North, passion intervenes, and an unexpected, “crazy” love threatens political chaos.
Pink / Ping-keu
Directed by Jeon Soo-il
Screenplay by
Jeon Kim Kyung
With Lee Seung-yeon, Seo Kap-sook, Park Hyeon-woo, Kang
San-eh
South Korea, 2011, 97 minutes
Among a clutch of derelict buildings sits Pink, a condemned bar
that caters to drifters and lost souls. Jeon’s eighth feature is a
portrait of a struggling small business, the world-weary middle-aged
woman who runs it, and her dwindling clientele.
From Seoul to Varanasi / Varanasi
Written and directed by Jeon Kyu-hwan
With Yoon Dong-hwan, Choi Won-jung, Shin Ye-an, Nollaig Walsh
South Korea, 2011, 96 minutes
Jeon,
whose Town Trilogy (Mozart, Dance, and Animal) was a highlight of last
year’s Yeonghwa, returns with a steamy and explicit melodrama that moves
beyond Korea to India and even the Middle East. A married executive in
Seoul has an affair and, eventually, so does his wife—with a foreign
worker. Secrets multiply, and what began as personal betrayals become
explosive global incidents.
Fire in Hell / Ji-ok-hwa
Written and directed by Lee Sang-woo
With Won Tae-hee, Cha Seung-min, Kim Hun, Lee Yong-rye
South Korea, 2012, 99 minutes
A graduate of
both UC Berkeley and the Kim Ki-duk “school” of filmmaking, Lee, one of
Korea’s maverick multitasking filmmakers, makes his Yeongwha debut with
this sensual melodrama. In a vivid exploration of the notion of karma, a
Buddhist monk loses control. The calamitous results are followed,
perhaps, by redemption. In Korean; English subtitles. 99 min.
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