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- 2000
- R
- Lot 47 Films
- 2 h 17 m
- 2000
- R
- Lot 47 Films
- 2 h 17 m
Summary Set in 18th century Korea, this story of young lovers from different social castes is based on a Korean folk tale.
Directed By: Im Kwon-taek
Written By: Sang-hyun Cho, Hye-yun Kang, Kim Myung-gon
- 2000
- R
- Lot 47 Films
- 2 h 17 m
- 2000
- R
- Lot 47 Films
- 2 h 17 m
Chunhyangdyun
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Summary Set in 18th century Korea, this story of young lovers from different social castes is based on a Korean folk tale.
Directed By: Im Kwon-taek
Written By: Sang-hyun Cho, Hye-yun Kang, Kim Myung-gon
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
79
88% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
13% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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A rapturously beautiful, lyrically dazzling work.
A multi-layered, experimental film, a film about storytelling, but the beauty of it is that it transcends the story at its center while still celebrating the virtues of a tale well-told.
Chunhyang is a movie — and a heroine — for all times.
From the ravishing landscape photography to the exquisite costume design, the entire film is a stunning visual experience; rarely since Hollywood's golden age has the genre been so well served.
The Korean director im Kwon-Taek has made more than 90 films since his first in 1962, and perhaps this explains why his latest, Chunhyang, seems so effortless and masterly. Based on a highly popular eighteenth-century Korean folktale, it's a movie that, stylistically, mixes the traditional with the avant-garde; the narrative may be ritualistic, but there's a let's-try-it-on-for-size friskiness to the filmmaking.
Im's movie approaches a seething, primitivist beauty that evokes Makhmalbaf and parallels the contrapuntal textual investigations of Resnais.
A feast for the eyes. But not, alas, for the ears.
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Production Company
CJ Entertainment,
Mirae Asset Capital,
Saehan Industries,
Taehung Pictures
Release Date Dec 29, 2000
Duration 2 h 17 m
Rating R
Tagline Her spirit became inspiration. Her name became legend.
Website
http://www.chunhyang21.co.kr/
Awards
Grand Bell Awards, South Korea
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Cine21
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Blue Dragon Awards
• 2 Nominations
