A Portraitist of a Subdued, Literary Korea
di Dennis Lim The New York Times
THE South Korean director Lee Chang-dong occupies a unique, somewhat contradictory position in his country’s film scene. As the first filmmaker to serve as South Korean minister of culture (from 2003 to 2004) and a longtime advocate of the quota system that obliges his nation’s theaters to show a minimum number of local films, he has played a central role in the resurgence of Korean cinema.
As a director, though, he does not exactly fit in. While the best-known Korean movies of the past few years are stylish, violent genre works — crime thrillers like “Oldboy” or effects-heavy fantasies like “The Host” — Mr. [...]
di Dennis Lim, articolo completo (6692 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 30 settembre 2007
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