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DO NOT MISS THIS FRENCH GEM ABOUT WHAT IS ACTING and maybe what STILL has to be a woman in our french culture in 20 minutes ..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om8e9494G-Q

Im Kwon-Taek is a key South Korean director for understanding Korean culture, which is currently flourishing thanks to the Hallyu wave.

In 1985, he directed "Gilsodom" (aka "Kilsottum Village"), a political fiction film that deals with the delicate issue of the partition of Korea.

After watching a television program chronicling the happy reunion of families separated by the division of Korea, Hwayong travels to Seoul and meets Tonglin, his former lover. Thirty years earlier, they fell in love in Kilsottum, but the war separated them. However, their reunion proves painful.

When watching this film, one should not be put off by the melodramatic twists and turns of the plot. This is merely a pretext that allows the director to draw a metaphor for the political status of Korea in the 1980s. In this perspective, the father would represent North Korea, the mother, South Korea, and the son, the sad fruit of their union.

Im Kwon-Taek attempts to demonstrate that the hypothesis of the reunification of the two Koreas is highly utopian.
Thirty years of separation and ideological war have caused irreparable harm to the Korean people. As a result, the two countries are not ready to accept each other as they are.
In these circumstances, we better understand the significance of the mother's gesture, which ultimately signifies renunciation, and with her, the entire generation of this director, a fine ethnologist and humanist, who turns their backs on their past.

This scar, still palpable in the 21st century, allows us to better understand certain biases in South Korean cinema and perhaps, in part, why this fascinating little country is still searching for its cultural identity.

You can watch it here with eng subs :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtDHc881l34

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Unbelievable that such a good thriller isn't praised on LB.

If you're into thrillers, asian culture and a realistic analyse of korean society through a dive into a little south korean village, it is made for you.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

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The important thing isn't to be classy or inventive like John Wick;
it's to make the carnage as visual as possible.

And that's Evans's art, only here, it's a festival of gunfights to see and that's not what we expect from an Evans film, where the laziness of the dialogue outweighs the vanity of the direction...

Aside from the "Tom Hardy show" and the final shootout behind closed doors, it's a huge disappointment.

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Featuring a 33-day relationship between a movie director and a woman suffering from borderline personality disorder, "Ritual" is undoubtedly the climax of Hideaki Anno's filmography.
It seems important to me to point out why.

And for good reason... in 1998-1999, when this film was to be shot, Anno found himself in a strange situation in his life. He had poured his heart and soul into “End of Evangelion,” an apocalyptic nightmare that was the very essence of who he was at the time.
For Anno fans, it is now accepted that the characters of "Neon Genesis Evangelion", Shinji, Rei and Asuka, represented three personality traits of Hideaki Anno. From then on, it will be easy to see in "Ritual" a characterization of different aspects of the director who, this time,
correspond to different periods of his life.

Two years after "Love and Pop" and an animated television series, called "Kare-Kano", an experience that was, to say the least, frustrating for him where, if statements dating back to that time are to be believed, Anno contemplated suicide.

It was at this time that Toshio Suzuki, Studio Ghibli producer and Anno's friend/mentor, offered to help him with a film project.
Anno comes across a novel by actress Ayako Fujitani, "illegitimate" daughter of American actor Steven Seagal, "Tōhimu".

Made in the city of Ube, the director's birthplace, "Ritual" combines the various themes contained in the short story, such as adolescence, the absence of a paternal reference point and being mixed race in Japan, with his own reflections, Hideaki Anno takes full ownership of his adaptation unlike what he was able to do on "Love & Pop".

With "Ritual", 'Anno approaches solitude in an organic, "realistic" and magnificent way. Solitudes that meet, collide, complement and enchant each other,
To serve this storyline which deals with a transcultural feeling, visuals which emphasize intense lighting and symmetrical environments which trap our characters. a meticulous and intelligent staging, including work on the colors red and blue to materialize emotions and feelings without verbalizing what would be considered indecent for a Japanese.
There is real work on the sound to carry the film. The musical score, composed mainly of piano tunes, infuses a feeling of melancholy into each image. The sound of raindrops oppresses us, level crossings arouse anxiety and complete silence at certain moments destabilizes.
people lost in a scary world.

This film is undoubtedly a film of those who can claim to be seen before they die

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