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IFFR2011: Bleak Night

By Julian Ross ⋅ February 17, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Another astonishing Korean debut on the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Tiger Awards line-up was Bleak Night, written, edited and directed by the 28-year old Yoon Sung-Hyun. In fact, not only is Bleak Night a remarkable first feature, it was submitted as a final project for the Korean Academy of Film Arts, KAFA, and thus, could [...]

DN IFFR2011: Bleak Night – Yoon Sung Hyun

By Julian Ross ⋅ February 16, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Competing for the Tiger Awards at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Yoon Sung Hyun’s Bleak Night shows how petty squabbles amongst school friends can descend into life and death consequences when people aren’t prepared to lose face and drop the macho posturing. Yoon Sung Hyun joined me to discuss the film and why he prefers [...]

DN IFFR2011: The Journals of Musan – Park Jung-Bum

By Julian Ross ⋅ February 15, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

Park Jung-Bum’s accomplished debut feature The Journals of Musan was awarded both the FIPRSECI Jury Award and a Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. I was lucky enough to grab some interview time with Park to discuss his depiction of the plight of North Korean defectors and his tutelage under South Korean auteur [...]

IFFR2011: End of Animal

By Julian Ross ⋅ February 15, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Tales of the apocalypse are often told in epic gravitas and loud explosions, yet a recent trend of filmmaking has searched for strategies to dig under our skin from a different angle. The Road tracked a relationship between father and son and focused on microcosmic details of their tragedy to expound on larger themes. Cause-and-effect [...]

IFFR 2011: Love Addiction

By Julian Ross ⋅ February 11, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Love Addiction, alternatively titled Fuyu no Kemono which means ‘Winter’s Beast’ in Japanese, throws four characters with conflicting personalities into a melting pot of emotional lava. The foursome all work in the same company and, in a strangely incestuous way, spend their time off work sleeping with each other. The variation in attitudes on interpersonal [...]

IFFR2011: The Journals of Musan

By Julian Ross ⋅ February 9, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

The Tiger Awards Competition line-up showcased an impressive array of world cinema feature-length debuts (and some second features), but none of these displayed the confident vision and accomplished cinematic sensibilities of The Journals of Musan. The deserved winner of both the FIPRSECI Jury Award and one of three Tiger Awards at the International Film Festival [...]

IFFR2011: Poetry

By Julian Ross ⋅ February 1, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

When Yang Mija, performed with exquisite passion by veteran actress Yun Jung-hee, begins attending a local poetry class to attend to her late-life ennui, she is advised to observe the small things in life for poetic inspiration. She starts to look out for the dancing leaves as the branches shake and monitor the flowers that [...]