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Titolo: [BC] Il SCMP su Kim Ki-Duk

In occasione di una retrospettiva su Kim Ki-Duk al centro culturale di
Hong Kong, ecco oggi un articolo sul South China Morning Post.
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Insight in the garden of good and evil 
 
 
Korea's Kim Ki-duk is the subject of the festival's Director in Focus
section with screenings of three works.
By I-ching Ng 
He's been called the Quentin Tarantino of South Korean cinema, and Kim
 Ki-duk is certainly one of the country's most controversial
directors. His recurring themes are violence, sexual perversity and
controversial treatment of women. Little wonder he's typically branded
an "angry young man".
With the release of his more transcendental and contemplative work
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring last year - a film that
explores the lives of an old monk and his young protég?- many thought
Kim had shifted his focus from portraying the brutality of human
behaviour.
Then came the controversial Samaritan Girl, which won Kim a Silver
Bear award for best director  at this year's Berlin International 
Film Festival.
The film - which is screening, with Spring Summer ... and The Coast
Guard, as part of the Director in  Focus series at this year's Hong
Kong International Film Festival - explores forgiveness and
reconciliation, sin and salvation, as a high school prostitute,
Yeo-jin, tries to create nirvana in her brothel bed by converting her
clients  to Buddhism. It all takes a tragic turn when her father seeks
revenge for her sexual exploitation.
The Coast Guard (2002) is drawn from Kim's experiences in the marines.
It opens with a young recruit suffering from the effects of an
accidental shooting, after he mistakes a man for  a North Korean spy
 
Kim's controversial work, Samaritan Girl, will be screening at the
festival.
"My films are not abruptly different from each other," says the
43-year-old director. "They all probe into questions of the human
psyche in various ways or forms.
"Just like one has different `rooms' in your own mind, each film is
drawn from different compartments in a `directory' in my mind.
"For me, film is created out of a point where reality and fantasy
meet. And my movies try to access the borderline where the painfully
real and the hopefully imaginative meet."
Kim had no formal training in filmmaking. He was born in a rural
village in South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of nine. He
dropped out of high school, then had a five-year stint in the army -
where he developed a passion for painting. He later studied fine arts
in Paris and made a living selling his paintings on the streets.
Kim says there is a common thread between his films: an attempt to
defy the notion that human nature is either innately good or evil. "I
am against any attempt to categorise human nature," he says.
"My films are not about the wisdom of life. Life is full of errors and
trials. But I did want to depict a life led to the ultimate wisdom, to
show how the happiness and ugliness of life co-exist."
Spring Summer ... today, 9.30pm, HK Science Museum Lecture Hall;
Friday, 6pm, HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre; The Coast Guard Apr 14,
7.15pm, Cine-Art House 2; Apr 17, 10.30am, City Hall Theatre;
Samaritan Girl Apr 13, 7.15pm, Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium; Apr 18,
6pm, HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre. HKIFF, tel 2970 3300,
hk...@hkadc.org.hk

 directors.
Le cazzate non hanno confini geografici, a quanto pare. Dopo lo "Spielberg
d'oriente" (Tsui Hark), ecco il Tarantino di Corea! ROTFL!
^_-
R.

 In occasione di una retrospettiva su Kim Ki-Duk al centro culturale di
"Spring, summer..." mi è arrivato oggi (dogana boia). Il case è fantastico.
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