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...stories yet keep them fresh is a sign of his mastery. The title story of Lost Souls is a timeless romance hinged on filial impiety. From the book's less topical third section, written just after the Korean War's end, it's reminiscent of the classic tale of Chunhyang, often likened to a Korean Juliet, that's still a pansori and cinema standard. (Im Kwon Taek's 2000 film version was a blockbuster.) But the ending of Hwang's reworking is all his own. As are the livelier scenes, in other stories, of a jazzy, prewar North Korea, full...
...films selected for Kwon-taek’s hosted screenings at the HFA, Chunhyang and Chihwaseon, are his two most recent. Another film, Sopyonje, was screened Monday, March 7, but the director was not present...
...Chunhyang, released in 2000, was adapted from a traditional epic and recounts the embattled life and tragic death of the titular courtesan. In the film, Kwon-taek combines the conventions of historical melodrama and musicals in ways reminiscent of Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark, which, incidentally, beat Kwon-taek’s film for the Palm d’Or at that year’s Cannes Film Festival...
...also gained considerable recognition outside of homeland. His 1993 film Seopyonje garnered three international prizes, in addition to the 27 awards it received at Korean film festivals. Chunhyang, released in 2002, became the first Korean film ever to be accepted at Cannes and was also an official selection at the Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals in that year...
Tonight, as well as Saturday evening, Im will be at the Harvard Film Archive to kick off three screenings taking place under the auspices of their “Directors in Focus” series. At 7 p.m., the Archive will show Chunhyang, a romantic epic that, like several of Im’s films, is related by a traditional pansori singer—and which with its sweeping sets and lavish costumes, recalls both the Korean theatrical and Hollywood musical traditions from which it draws. Chihwaseon, a portrait of Korea’s great artist and brush master Jang...