Introduction review – tangled web of relationships from Korea to Berlin Peter Bradshaw
Long after Lars von Trier’s Dogme 95 movement has been forgotten, with its tongue-in-cheek commitment to radically low-budget realist cinema, one director is still succeeding in releasing features that are cheaper than student films, composed of people simply talking to each other: in apartments, in restaurants over a lot of alcohol and in the streets with non-actors heedlessly walking past in the background. That director is the South Korean director Hong Sang-soo, who opens this online Berlin film festival with another intriguing and sympathetic vignette: enigmatically entitled Introduction, running at just 66 minutes, despite containing enough backstory detail for a two-hour drama. I’m not sure it is entirely successful, but it demonstrates Hong’s delicate touch in creating films that, like a certain type of short story or poem, suggest more depth and detail than is ap
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2 Korean indie films invited to 71st Berlin Film Festival
Posted : 2021-02-17 16:08
By Kwak Yeon-soo
Two Korean independent films have been invited to the youth-centered Generation competition of this year s Berlin International Film Festival, distributors said Wednesday.
According to the 2021 lineup for the Berlinale, which will be held online from March 1-5, Short Vacation and Fighter will be presented in the Generation s Kplus and 14plus sections, respectively. Berlin s Generation films target children and youth audiences. Short Vacation from directors Kwon Min-pyo and Seo Han-sol, who are making their feature directorial debut, is about four middle school classmates who embark on a journey together to finish their summer assignment, which is to capture the end of the world on their cameras.