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Things are looking good for Kim Ki-Duk, who had a rough year in 2006 with Korean audiences and film critics. His 14th work, Breath, which is in competition at the 60th Cannes Film Festival, was screened on Saturday May 19th, at the Lumiere Theatre in the French resort town that becomes the world capital of cinema for a brief fortnight (May 16-27, this year). 
Kim Ki-Duk, Chang Chen, Park Ji-Ah and Kang In-Hyung (Photo: Reuters)
The director walked the red carpet with his two stars, Korean actress Zia (Park Ji-Ah) and Taiwanese actor Chang Chen, and newcomer Kang In-Hyung. The film was very well received, to say the least: the audience at the Lumiere Theatre loved it and gave Kim a 10-minute standing ovation.
Penitentiary love.
Breath (“Som”, which opened in Korea on April 26) depicts the strange and strained relationship between Yeon, a young woman whose husband is having an affair and Jin, a silent and suicidal death row inmate. Hidden, as often (did he pick up the habit from Wong Kar-Wai?), behind his sunglasses, Kim declared at the press conference: “I wanted to show the difficulties of social and human relations – when it reaches the point where you find it hard to breathe.” |
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