Green Fish John Fidler June 2012 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 63 Lee Chang-dong’s wrenching, tonally nuanced first film, Chorok mulkogi (Green Fish, 1997), packs a quiet wallop. By turns emotionally coercive,...
Peppermint Candy Rahul Hamid June 2012 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 63 Lee Chang-dong is the cinema’s great poet of disappointment. His films are preoccupied by the ways in which the mores of contemporary South Korean...
Between Innocence and Experience: Lee Chang Dong’s Secret Sunshine Adrian Danks June 2012 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 63 Miryang (Secret Sunshine, 2007) begins with the sky. Shine-ae (Jeon Do-yeon)’s car has broken-down outside of Miryang (which literally translates,...
Oasis Marc Raymond June 2012 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 63 The story of Lee Chang-dong’s artistic career is a fascinating one. He started as a novelist before moving to the medium of film in his late...
