[ Symbol of something? Allegory? Just a realist sculpture? (Seoul 2010) Pictures Marzia Poerio]
Korea, 1998. Title in English: CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST. By Han Suk-kyu and Shim Eun-ha Jung Won
a photo shop inherited from his father. Da-Rim, a young policewoman, under the pretext of the photos, the courts returned. The two will be able to give a date, but at one point Jung Won disappears. The spectators, but not by RIM, are aware that he is admitted to a hospital, where he died. Da-Rim waiting for him at the shop several times in the days after admission, exasperated to the point of pulling a stone against the window. Finally, the film gives no explanation at the end if the young person is to know whether the disease Jung Won, Da Rim known of the objects in a snapshot shows that the photographer had tripped and, reassured by the importance attributed to it (since the image has been chosen for the showcase of very few), he resigned at the end of that love is not advanced beyond the dialogue and the kindness that the two have exchanged over a period of time.
If the plot is so cleverly minimalist and melancholy, each element of this movie it is a worthy container.
The semi-urban landscape is that Korea is not a completely modernized. The characters express reticence, shyness, consideration for others, unresolved dramas that do not prevent them from continuing to live with dignity. Falling in love
Da Rim reopens the possibility of feeling in Jung Won, who has never married because of love for a girl who had chosen another. Jung Won now appears to turn the page, just when death awaits him with a fate that faces with courage rhetorical and altruism, not revealing to the problem from RIM to not commit to a relationship that would end so traumatic for her. Not that that matters as much as the feelings experienced in this film with conviction, yet rendered with a human sympathy and words of silence measured in smiles and simplicity, qualities that, in contrast with our years of excess and word dominance of narcissism, the more we value.
The film has a small memory, whose agent is photography. It especially shows photos of an old lady who posed for the photographer to get an image suitable for your funeral when it will be. The relationship between death and life is not only the cycle of existence, but also the relationship between memories and present.
Both group and individual poses, often in the film are recorded by the camera slowly. The photography in this film, as well as symbolize the recording of memory, is a metaphor metatextual art images, and even the film industry. The acting is natural and everyday. The street noise can be heard in the dialogue between external as in a documentary.
is a film rightly mentioned among the forerunners of contemporary South Korean cinema.
[Renato Persol]
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