Breath (Kim Ki Duk)
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Directed by Kim Ki Duk
Starring Chang Chen (Three Times) & Zia (A Tale of Two Sisters)
Synopsis:
After her husbandÂ’s confession of having an affair, Yeon finds herself heading towards the prison to meet a condemned criminal Jin who repeatedly attempted suicide. She doesnÂ’t know why, but Yeon meets Jin and treats him like an old friend. Jin doesnÂ’t open up to her that easily at first. While Yeon brings spring, summer and autumn to Jin in the prison, they fall for each other. But JinÂ’s clock is ticking away, and Yeon doesnÂ’t want to send him away like that.
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Breath opens 27 Dec 2007 -
Of the limited number of Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk's movies, I have only seen a handful of them, and mostly they are the relatively contemporary movies, like The Bow, 3-Iron and Time. The feeling I got from them all is consistent - that it's not your usual storytelling, as he seemed more often than not to obscure any intended message, or meaning in his tales, much like searching for an Easter Egg, or worse, that needle in the haystack to get something out of it. If I can summarize his movies in a statement, then it'll be to expect something that's totally unexpected, though not necessary always in a good way.
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