Breath (film)

Infobox Korean Film
name = Breath


director = Kim Ki-duk
writer = Kim Ki-duk
starring = Chang Chen
Park Ji-ah
music = Kim Myeong-jong
cinematography = Seong Jong-mu
editing = Wang Su-an
distributor = Sponge
released = April 26, 2007
runtime = 84 min.
language = Korean
country = South Korea
admissions = 12,293 [http://www.koreanfilm.org/films2007.html#boxoffice Box-Office Admission Results (2007)] , "Koreanfilm.org". Retrieved on April 2, 2008.]
kmdb_id = 08901
imdb_id = 0901475
hangul = 숨
hanja =
rr = Sum
mr =

"Breath" (숨, "Sum") is the fourteenth feature film by South Korean director Kim Ki-duk.

Plot

After discovering her husband's infidelity, Yeon develops an interest in condemned criminal Jang Jin. Although she doesn't know him, Yeon visits Jin in prison and performs songs for him.

Cast

* Chang Chen ... Jang Jin
* Park Ji-ah ... Yeon
* Ha Jeong-woo ... Yeon's husband
* Kang In-hyeong ... Young prisoner
* Kim Ki-duk ... Prison warden

Reception

"Breath" was nominated for the Palme d'Or award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, although the prize was eventually awarded to the film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days". It has so far attained mixed reviews; Variety Magazine's Derek Elley concluded that the film was 'a far less ambitious work than "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring", one of the director's most internationally successful films from 2003 [http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=review&reviewid=VE1117933392&cs=1 Variety Magazine's review of Breath] by Derek Elley, retrieved April 18, 2008.] In a comment that may go part of the way towards an explanation of the film's reception, Twitch's reviewer Derek Todd professes: [http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/kim-ki-duks-breath-review/ Twitch's review of Breath] by Derek Todd, retrieved April 18, 2008 ]

I really wanted to love this film, but there’s just a little too much left unexplored and unexplained, and I was left with a feeling of wanting to have had more of these characters lives.

References

External links

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* [http://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/md_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=08901 "Breath"] at the Korean Movie Database
* [http://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_Breath.php "Breath"] at HanCinema
* [http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php/en/archives/film/4434982 "Breath"] at Festival De Cannes