Poetry picks up its 17th award
by javabeans
And the awards keep rolling in for Poetry, which has just collected its 17th from Switzerland’s 25th Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF), taking home the festival’s top prize, the Regard d’Or. Starring Yoon Jung-hee as an elderly woman finding happiness writing poetry for the first time, the film was praised “for the skillful fusion, the perfect unity, the beauty, the purity and essence of art in itself: poetry.”
Writer-director Lee Chang-dong can add this to his well-decorated mantel: Poetry’s highest-profile win to date is probably the Best Screenplay award from the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. (He also wrote and directed Secret Sunshine back in 2007, which took home Cannes’ top prize.)
Just a week ago, Poetry also won for Best Director and Screenplay at Hong Kong’s Asian Film Awards, which joins its Best Picture prize at the Grand Bell Awards and Best Actress trophy at the Blue Dragon Awards. Breaking down the 17 wins by category, four were for Best Picture, five for its screenplay, three each for its director and actress, one for supporting actor, and one critic’s award.
Meanwhile, FIFF was also a good day for director Kim Tae-yong and his classic-film remake Late Autumn — starring Hyun Bin and Tang Wei — which won two awards of its own. One was the Special Mention of the Jury of the International Federation of Film Societies, and the other was the special youth-jury-selected Ex-Change Award. It was lauded as “a beautiful film that delicately portrays the process of two people opening their hearts to each other, transcending language.”
Not a bad showing for Korean films, which are starting to make greater headway on the international scene and the festival circuit. It’s funny how the ones that get raves abroad aren’t the ones pulling in the major attention back home — or maybe that’s just always the way.
Via Sports Chosun, Screen Daily
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1 girlfriday
March 29, 2011 at 4:32 PM
THAT KISS o__o
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Mawiie
March 29, 2011 at 4:53 PM
Is that a fangirling Girlfriday that I see? :P
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tegami
March 29, 2011 at 5:03 PM
MY THOUGHTS E-X-A-C-T-L-Y.
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helterskelter
March 29, 2011 at 5:11 PM
HOT! :D
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elle loves kdrama
March 29, 2011 at 6:40 PM
dreamy kiss :)
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mookie
March 29, 2011 at 7:04 PM
it's said to be 1min+ long of THAT KISS.
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TOOIZZY
March 30, 2011 at 6:40 AM
So gentle-looking! Muah!!
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2 maez
March 29, 2011 at 5:08 PM
Had to watch this for my class.....it was ok. Need patience but I liked it.
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3 tegami
March 29, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Man, that picture of Hyun Bin and Tang Wei kissing practically singed my eyebrows off.
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4 paula253
March 29, 2011 at 5:20 PM
::fans self:: PLEASE let Late Autumn come to Seattle Intl Film Fest!! after all, it was filmed here!
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diorama
March 29, 2011 at 6:32 PM
What about us people faaaaar from any foreign movie theaters? *sob* Any chance mysoju or some other site will sub it?
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malia
March 30, 2011 at 9:15 AM
I know!
I'm always hearing about films like these and can't find them with eng subtitles anywhere :(
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5 peanut butter
March 29, 2011 at 5:52 PM
As far as korean movies go, that's probably true. I myself never did watch the movies that raked in awards on an international scale. I do watch movies like Finding Kim Jong Wook.
If you think about it, it could be that viewers prefer rom-coms and the serious movies are probably the ones be sent out to the festivals.
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6 Nars
March 29, 2011 at 5:53 PM
Meanwhile, Transformers 5: Planet of Earth will win no awards for the screenplay writer, no one.
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7 Rickshot
March 29, 2011 at 5:56 PM
Yeah, the internationally lauded films tend to be less ....popcorn entertainment lol. i mean if i had to choose between a woman discovering herself, or won bin shooting and maiming baddies on a rampage, I think i know which one i'd go with
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Arhazivory
March 29, 2011 at 7:08 PM
...and I'd be going with you.
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lonerfish
March 30, 2011 at 5:20 AM
Count me in too ;-)
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8 guini
March 29, 2011 at 6:09 PM
.......oh that kiss! I'm glad I open this, I wasn't even planning to read this article...but ola the treasured kiss of HB!
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9 Dara
March 29, 2011 at 7:03 PM
Yep, that's always the way. Groups of hard-to-please peeps praising their own lots!
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10 samgetang
March 29, 2011 at 7:08 PM
I watched "Poetry" in dramacrazy(dot)net during one of those times when I've had too much rom-com that they are almost coming out of my ears, hehe.
It was an excellent film! I loved how the title seem to promise you beauty, peace and fluidity only to find out that it was about how the main character's grandson became involved in a very jarring experience for someone so young. I think it is this fusion of harmony and discord within the film that made it interesting for me. And how the grandmother tried to live through that tragedy through her new-found discovery of the art of poetry-writing. Poetic justice, indeed!
Not to miss at all!
I'd love to watch Late Autumn, too. Any chance where we can watch an eng subbed version of it? Main reason? Hyun Bin. Need I say more? Here is one actor who can transcend festival to commercial and back effectively and seamlessly.
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will work for soju
March 30, 2011 at 6:04 AM
From what I understand, Late Autumn is actually mostly in English. That's how the characters communicate given that he is Korean and she is Chinese. I'm actually curious to see how this works since Hyun Bin's English in Secret Garden wasn't that great. He must have said something right to get to the kiss, though!
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samgetang
March 30, 2011 at 9:01 AM
Thanks, willworkforsoju! That makes it easier for many of us, hehe ;-) Hope they did not dub it to cover for the thick accent...subtitles would be much more preferred...
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mookie
March 30, 2011 at 10:46 AM
his English will be deliberately worse than SG coz they translate every line on script fr Eng back to Korean then he and the writer mince on it to translate it back to Eng...to make it as close to a FOB immigrant (his char is a fugitive fr Korea) would sound like with very limited knowledge of proper usage.
So he'll be saying stuff like, 'Can I have the time?' instead of 'What time is it?'
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Lenita
March 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM
actually, based on youtube snatches i've seen, hyun bin's pronunciation isn't bad. anyway, the character isn't supposed to be a fluent english speaker, having just lived in america 3 years...
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Kimys
March 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM
His english wasn't that bad but he had simple sentences , and he was awesome.. the movie kinda bored me sometimes but i won't argue about a korean movie on a swiss screen!
(ps: he's not a korean fugitive.. he just have a hum.. "dangerous job")
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11 Alex
March 29, 2011 at 7:56 PM
Should have been nominated for the Oscar...or at lwast bern the official pick.
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Ashley
March 29, 2011 at 8:49 PM
I can never understand which films are submitted by each country and why. It happens all the time that the movie you expect to be put up is not for whatever reason. With all the accolades this film has gotten, it could've be nominated and even won not only because it's a good movie, but also because people are aware of it.
They submitted a movie about soccer that I haven't heard of. Can't figure out why. Maybe it's good. I don't know. Just confuses me with all the buzz this film had months before the submissions were due.
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12 christine
March 29, 2011 at 10:32 PM
"It’s funny how the ones that get raves abroad aren’t the ones pulling in the major attention back home — or maybe that’s just always the way. ""
I believe there is a saying "A prophet is never recognised in his own country".
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Pat
March 29, 2011 at 10:45 PM
No, the general taste is usually lowbrow. Serious movies need to be thought about. that's why they HAVE film festivals.
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13 ck1Oz
March 30, 2011 at 3:06 AM
I spent way longer looking at THAT kiss than reading the article :-)
God he's got the IT factor alright.
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