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Busan Film Fest Gears up for Grand Opening

 

This year's Busan International Film Festival will kick off its 10-day run on Oct. 12, organizers said at a press conference in Seoul on Monday. The festival will feature 298 films from 75 countries with 100 of the films receiving their world premieres.

American director Oliver Stone, best known for "Platoon," will head the jury for the New Currents competition section for up-and-coming Asian directors.

Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda, who directed "Like Father, Like Son," will lead an education program for young Asian filmmakers lasting about two weeks. 

 

Director Shin Su-won (left) and actress Moon Geun-young pose at a press junket for the Busan International Film Festival in Seoul on Monday. /Yonhap

The Korean film "Glass Garden," directed by Shin Su-won and starring Moon Geun-young, will open the festival, while "Love Education" by Taiwanese director Sylvia Chang will close the event.

Moon, who is recuperating from acute compartment syndrome, made her first public appearance since February. She has undergone four operations to treat the illness and is now expected to resume work. 

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Busan Film Festival Unveils Lineup

 

A total of 298 films from 75 countries will be shown Oct. 12-21 in the South Korean port city.

The 22nd Busan International Film Festival will open Oct. 12 with Glass Garden by South Korean filmmaker Shin Suwon, fest organizers confirmed Monday while unveiling the full lineup following a leak of the opening title last week.

A total of 298 films from 75 countries will be shown through Oct. 21 in the South Korean port city.

Handled by Little Big Pictures, Glass Garden is the latest work by Shin, who won international acclaim for her award-winning 2014 drama Madonna. The mystery-drama stars popular actress Moon Geun-young as a scientist studying artificial blood. After being betrayed by her professor-cum-lover, she takes refuge in a forest where she meets an obscure novelist (Kim Tae-hoon). A shocking secret is unveiled as the writer sets out to pen a story about the young woman.

"My film is about a young scientist's dreams and hopes being dashed due to human desire. It began from a question, whether humans can coexist like nature," Shin told reporters.

BIFF director Kang Soo-youn noted that this year will mark the first time that both the opening and closing films are titles by female directors.

 

Love Education by director Sylvia Chang (China, Taiwan) will close the fest. The pic tells the story of a woman, Hui Yang, trying to move the grave of her father so it could be next to that of her dying mother. Conflict, however, ensues with her father's first wife, who opposes the move.

Five films will receive gala presentations this year, most of which hail from Japan. Butterfly Sleep, a Korean co-production by Jeong Jae-eun; Narratage, a melodrama by Isao Yukisada; The Third Murder, a courtroom thriller-drama by Hirokazu Kore-eda; and Manhunt by Hong Kong action master John Woo. There is one non-Asian title in the selection, Mother!, by American helmer Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) starring Jennifer Lawrence.

This year's fest features a strong representation of North American documentary films, such as Ex Libris: New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman, Makala by Emmanuel Gras and the SXSW grand jury prize winner The Work by Gethin Aldous and Jairus Mcleary.

In addition to Aronofsky and Lawrence are slated to attend, Oliver Stone will be among international guests. The renowned director of Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July will head the jury of New Currents, Busan's main competition section that is designed to introduce up-and-coming Asian filmmakers. This year's selection of 10 titles features many works hailing from Chinese-speaking territories, including End of Summer by Zhou Quan (China), One Night on the Wharf by Han Dong (China), Somewhere Beyond the Mist by King Wai Cheung (Hong Kong) and The Last Verse by Tseng Ying-Ting (Taiwan).

The fest will pay tribute to a champion of Asian cinema, Kim Ji-seok, head programmer and deputy director, who died in May. Organizers have introduced the Kim Jiseok Award in the Window on Asian Cinema section, and two films will receive the honor.

Platform Busan, a new networking program for Asian indie filmmakers that Kim had organized, will also be posthumously launched at the upcoming festival. The program, which will run Oct. 14-18, will offer regional filmmakers the chance to take part in seminars, forums and workshops.

"We expect Platform Busan to bring new momentum to the film industries of Korea and other Asian countries," said fest chairman Kim Dong-ho.

Sept. 13, 11:15 p.m. Updated with additional lineup announcement made by BIFF on Thursday. Manhunt by John Woo has been included in the gala section.

 

 

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[Photos] Stark stills released for Moon Geun-young's "Glass Garden"

 

 

This Busan International Film Festival opener has released some pretty stunning stills that capture the mood of "Glass Garden" perfectly. In them we see grief, sorrow, shock, and curiosity. I mostly feel curiosity looking at these, wondering what this film is going to be like.

-Yours, Lisa, who is happy to see Moon Geun-young back and full of vitality

"Glass Garden" (2017)

Directed by Shin Su-won

With Moon Geun-young, Kim Tae-hoon, Seo Tae-hwa, Lim Jeong-woon, Park Ji-soo, Lee Ki-hyuk,...

Filming began: 2016/05/27
Wrapped-up Filming: 2016/07/24
Synopsis
Mystery movie "Glass Garden" depicts astonishing events that happen to Jae-yeon (Moon Geun-young), a researcher in her doctorate program, who has been living somewhat a secretive life compared to others, after she encountered the irony of reality and then ignored the surrounding world. Jae-yeon's mysterious and astonishing story is retold from the point of view by Ji-hoon, a novelist, who once went through a controversy being accused of plagiarism and turned his back on the world afterwards.

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22nd Busan International Film Festival 2017

Release date in Korea : 2017/10/25

 

 

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[NEWS] #GlassGarden director #ShinSuWon praised, "#MoonGeunYoung will become an actress like #MerylStreep" Source: http://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=076&aid=0003154359&spi_ref=m_entertain_twitter …

 

 

 

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[VIDEO] #MoonGeunYoung #문근영 at #GlassGarden press conference 2017.09.11~

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[PHOTO] #MoonGeunYoung #문근영 new image (출처: 리틀빅픽처스 페이스북) '#GlassGarden' posters for Busan International Film Festival

 

 

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[Photo] Moon Geun-young is captivating in main poster for "Glass Garden"

 

 

"Glass Garden" is sure looking gorgeous with the verdant promotional material, Moon Geun-young's haunting voice, and Kim Tae-hoon's steely intesity as his character searches for the truth. This latest poster is another take on what we've seen, but this time we can see the secrets written on Moon Geun-young's face in this close-up shot.

"Glass Garden" (2017)

Directed by Shin Su-won

With Moon Geun-young, Kim Tae-hoon, Seo Tae-hwa, Lim Jeong-woon, Park Ji-soo, Lee Ki-hyuk,...

Filming began: 2016/05/27
Wrapped-up Filming: 2016/07/24
Synopsis
Mystery movie "Glass Garden" depicts astonishing events that happen to Jae-yeon (Moon Geun-young), a researcher in her doctorate program, who has been living somewhat a secretive life compared to others, after she encountered the irony of reality and then ignored the surrounding world. Jae-yeon's mysterious and astonishing story is retold from the point of view by Ji-hoon, a novelist, who once went through a controversy being accused of plagiarism and turned his back on the world afterwards.

Festival
22nd Busan International Film Festival 2017

Release date in Korea : 2017/10/25

 

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[PHOTO] New #GlassGarden stills featuring #MoonGeunYoung #문근영 

 

 

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Busan Film Fest to open with “Glass Garden” premiere

 

 

 

 

A scene from film "Glass Garden."  Directed by Shin Su-won and starring Moon Geun-young, “Glass Garden” will open the 22nd Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). /  Courtesy of BIFF.

By Jason Bechervaise

Asia’s most prestigious film festival, the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), kicks off its 22nd edition on Thursday evening with the world premiere of Shin Su-won’s mystery drama “Glass Garden.”

Shin’s filmography includes “Pluto” that bowed in Busan in 2012 creating much buzz and secured a well-deserved invite to the Berlin Film Festival, while her more recent film “Madonna” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.

 

Her latest film stars Moon Geun-young as a brilliant young researcher who lives alone in a glass garden and is watched by a novelist played by Kim Tae-hoon who then writes a novel about her.

It is significant that a Korean film again opens the festival following last year’s well-received “A Quiet Dream” underscoring the festival’s emphasis on local cinema, which features programs dedicated to Korean films.

In the Korean Cinema Today Panorama section, it will screen 16 films. Many of these titles have been released over the past few months including Hong Sang-soo’s “The Day After,” Jang Hoon’s “A Taxi Driver,” Lee Joon-ik’s “Anarchist from Colony,” Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja” and Ryoo Seung-wan’s “The Battleship Island” (the festival will screen Ryoo’s director’s cut).

But there are also new films from established and talented filmmakers such as Oh Muel with “Mermaid Unlimited,” Shin Yeon-shick with “Romans 8:37” and Pang Eun-jin with “Method.”

In the vision strand, which has been home to some of the great discoveries in recent years such as “Han Gong-ju” (2013) and last year’s “Jane” will feature eleven titles including Lee Kwang-kuk’s “A Tiger in Winter” and Lee Dong-eun’s “Mothers.”

Among the films selected for the New Currents section are two Korean titles: Ko Hyun-seok’s “How to Breathe Underwater” and Shin Dong-seok’s “Last Child” vying for the New Currents Award.

Notable Korean films to emerge from this program include the touching “Merry Christmas Mr. Mo” last year and “End of Winter” in 2014 that was invited to Berlin Film Festival and won the New Currents Award.

This year the New Currents jury is to be headed by world renowned filmmaker Oliver Stone that reflects the wealth of talent coming to this year’s festival, which also includes Darren Aronofsky with his film “Mother!” and John Woo with his latest feature “Manhunt.”

Indeed, while the festival is certainly keen on showcasing local films and talent, it is equally passionate about world cinema, made evident by its impressive lineup, screening 300 films from 75 different countries. This includes 100 world premieres.

Aronofsky’s “Mother!” will feature in the festival’s Gala Presentation section, as will “Manhunt” starring local star Ha Ji-won. Both films were invited to the Venice Film Festival last month.

Those keen on catching some of the other major festival titles that are attracting awards buzz include Sean Baker’s acclaimed drama “The Florida Project” that is screening in the World Cinema section, as is Todd Haynes’ mystery drama “Wonderstruck.” Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ sports drama “Battle of the Sexes” starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell is also screening in this strand along with Alexander Payne’s science fiction comedy “Downsizing,” among others.

British film “God’s Own Country” directed by Francis Lee, about the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker at a Yorkshire farm that has generated much critical acclaim in the U.K., is screening in the Wide Angle section.

There is also a strong showing from Japan with a number of titles from auteurs and notable directors. Takeshi Kitano’s latest yakuza film “Outrage Coda” that screened out of competition in Venice is featuring in the A Window on Asian Cinema section while Hirokazu Koreeda’s thriller “The Third Murder” and Yukisada Isao’s “Narratage” are to screen as gala presentations.

Special programs this year include a Shin Seong-sil retrospective, one of Korea’s most iconic actors featuring as a lead in over 500 films. Eight films starring Shin will screen at the festival including Kim Ki-duk’s “The Barefooted Youth” (1964) and Kim Soo-yong’s “Mist” (1967).

The festival will also hold a special focus on Sakha cinema along with a program focussing on renowned Japanese filmmaker Suzuki Seijun featuring seven of his films such as “Tokyo Drifter” and “Branded to Kill.”

The festival will close with the world premiere of Sylvia Chang’s “Love Education” in which she also stars about three women from different eras of Chinese history.

The festival will take place until Oct. 21 and further details are available at biff.kr .

 

Jason Bechervaise is a movie columnist for The Korea Times. He can be reached at jase@koreanfilm.org.uk .
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[Cine feature] Women directors, Japan and China lead 22nd Busan International Film Festival

 

 

BIFF opens with Shin Su-won’s GLASS GARDEN on October 12th

October is just around the corner, which means that it’s almost time to kick off Asia’s top celebration of cinema. The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) will return for its 22nd edition on October 12th, during which it will screen around 300 films from 75 countries across the globe, including 100 world premieres and 29 international premieres. As usual, the lineup features a broad variety of films but this year’s fest is putting a particularly strong focus on women directors and films from Japan and China.

 

 

Strong representation of women filmmakers

 

 

For the first time, BIFF will both open and close with films directed by women. Shin Su-won, one of the leading voices of Korea’s independent scene, returns with her fourth feature Glass Garden, which will have its world premiere at it serves as this year’s opening film. Following her Berlin-invited PLUTO(which debuted as a gala presentation in Busan in 2012) and her Cannes-premiered Madonna in 2015, SHIN’s latest features Moon Geun-young as a bio researcher who retreats to the countryside, where a struggling writer (Kim Tae-hun) approaches her and uses her as inspiration for a new novel.

 

 

Closing the fest, which runs until October 21st, will be Love Education, the latest from Taiwanese director and actress Sylvia Chang. Featuring Chang both as actress and director, Love Education chronicles a dying woman’s reminiscences of her family’s past troubles as they try to move the family graves. Chang’s last work Murmur of the Hearts was the opening film of the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2015.

 

 

Continuing the strong representation of women directors this year is Take Care Of My Cat (2001) director Jeong Jae-eun, who returns with her first fiction film since 2005’s The Aggressive. Jeong’s Japan-Korea co-production Butterfly Sleep will be one of this year’s five Gala Presentations. Not only that, Jeong is also featured in the Wide Angle Documentary Showcase with her latest non-fiction feature Ecology in Concrete.

 

 

Another two of this year’s Gala films hail from Japan, with the international premiere of Yukisada Isao’s drama Narratage and The Third Murder, the first thriller from BIFF regular KOREEDA Hirokazu. Two more heavy hitters round out the Gala selections, with John Woo’s Manhunt (incidentally also set in Japan), a return to his HK-era action roots which features Korean star Ha Ji-won, as well as Darren Aronosky’s headtrip mother!, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem.

 

 

Brand New Korean Films across Various Sections

 

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2017 Busan Festival reveals international guest list

 

SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Yonhap) -- Dozens of Korean and foreign movie stars and directors will be out when the Busan International Film Festival kicks off its 22nd edition in the southern port city of Busan on Oct. 12.

Festival organizers recently revealed a list of the South Korean and foreign film industry figures who are expected to attend the festival, including actors Jang Dong-gun and Moon Geun-young as well as directors Oliver Stone, Darren Aronofsky, John Woo and Hirokazu Kore-eda.

 

 

Among local actors, Jang of "V.I.P." and Lee Je-hoon of comedy-drama "I Can Speak" confirmed their plans to visit Busan for the fest. Both will attend the Open Talk event hosted by the Korea Film Reporters Association at the Haeundae BIFF Village outdoor stage on Oct. 13 and 14. Jang also will co-host the opening ceremony of the festival with actress Kim Ha-neul on Oct. 12.

Moon So-ri, who recently made her directorial debut with the comedy-drama based on her own life story titled "The Running Actress," will also be on the Open Talk stage with Japanese actress Nakayama Miho from Iwai Shunji's seminal "Love Letter" on Oct. 13.

 

 

The same program will feature the main cast members -- Moon Geun-young, Kim Tae-hoon, Seo Tae-hwa and Im Chung-woon -- of the 22nd BIFF opener "Glass Garden" with its director Shin Su-won on Sunday.

 

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[HanCinema's on Location] Press Conference for Moon Geun-young's "Glass Garden" at Busan Film Festival

 

 

Today was the opening day for the largest film festival in Asia, the 22nd Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which spans from October 12 to October 21. HanCinema had the honor of attending the press conference for the film chosen for the opening ceremony, Korean film "Glass Garden". Present for the conference were stars Moon Geun-young, Kim Tae-hoon, Seo Tae-hwa, Lim Jeong-woon, and Park Ji-soo, director Shin Su-won, and former actress Kang Soo-yeon for BIFF.

One very interesting question asked of Director Shin Su-won was about her opinion of the blacklist of industry talent that began in a previous administration. She ardently stated that freedom of speech and creativity was paramount.

 

 

Leading actress Moon Geun-young spoke of how difficult it was for her to transition from the peaceful forest filming location to the bustling Seoul locations, much like her character.

 

 

Kim Tae-hoon talked about the creative spirit and freedom in his character.

 

 

Lim Jeong-woon needed a moment to collect his thoughts before speaking about his part, which he felt was very realistic.

 

 

 

Park Ji-soo felt that her work was easy compared to those of her colleagues.

 

 

Seo Tae-hwa spoke of the challenges of acting like a corpose and Director Shin Su-won added that he couldn't breathe or blink or she'd have to cut the take and start again.

 

 

Park Ji-soo and Seo Tae-hwa

 

 

Kang Soo-yeon, Director Shin Su-won, Kim Tae-hoon, Moon Geun-young, Park Ji-soo, Seo Tae-hwa, and Lim Jeong-woon

 

Kang Soo-yeon, Lim Jeong-woon, Seo Tae-hwa, and Park Ji-soo

 

Kang Soo-yeon, Lim Jeong-woon, Seo Tae-hwa, Park Ji-soo, Moon Geun-young, Director Shin Su-won, and Kim Tae-hoon

Written by: Lisa Espinosa AKA Raine from 'Raine's Dichotomy'

 

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[Video] Press Conference for 'Glass Garden'  at Busan Film Festival October 12, 2017

 

 

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[Videos] Enlightening trailers for Moon Geun-young's "Glass Garden"

 

 

After listening to director Shin Su-won and the cast speak at the press conference at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival for "Glass Garden", this videos take on new meaning for me. This film is really like a child for Director Shin and the actors poured their souls into their parts. The thirty-second trailer depicts the hopeful side of Moon Geun-young's character while the director's commentary shows how Director Shin worked with her cast and crew and what she thought about her work.

-Yours, Lisa, who is really enjoying film

 

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[VIDEO] #GlassGarden #유리정원 character video featuring #MoonGeunYoung #문근영, #KimTaeHoon and #SeoTaeHwa

 

 

 

유리정원 (Glass Garden, 2017) 감독 코멘터리 영상 (Director's Commentary Video)

 

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Busan Film Review: ‘Glass Garden’

Human and plant life merge — or do they? — to oddball effect in South Korean director Shin Su-won's elusive environmental fable.

 

 

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Moon Geun-young, Kim Tae-hun

1 hour 57 minutes

Official Site: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6462750/

We’ve all been told that the Lorax speaks for the trees, but Dr. Seuss’s mustachioed conservationist has nothing on the fragile, dendrology-fixated protagonist of “Glass Garden.” A pretty, peculiar fable that slowly takes the term “green-fingered” to alarming extremes, South Korean writer-director Shin Su-won’s fourth feature centers on Jae-yeon (Moon Geon-young), a brilliant but unworldly Ph.D student whose innovative research into human photosynthesis leads her on a deranged quest to quite literally become one with nature. It’s a premise that could branch out into any number of fruitful genre directions, from mad-scientist sci-fi to whimsical high-concept comedy to outright body horror. Somewhat frustratingly, it winds up committing to no such identity, though the meandering, melancholic almost-romance we get instead is not without its charms.

 

Following its unveiling as the opening film of this year’s Busan fest, Shin’s distinctively strange film will receive select festival play, though it’s unlikely to match the profile of her last feature, “Madonna,” which bowed in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. Domestically, the film should benefit from the enduring popularity of leading lady Moon, a former child star once dubbed “the nation’s little sister” — though “Glass Garden” plays on her vulnerable, girlish countenance in unsettling ways.

 

 

A social outsider troubled from childhood by a severe leg disability, budding biochemist Jae-yeon has thrown the bulk of her life’s energy into research for a project she terms “green blood”: a way of improving and extending human life by transplanting chlorophyll from plants into red blood cells. It’s an uncertain innovation that she admits to potential investors may be a century away from complete fruition, so is found lacking when a slicker, more glamorous fellow student pinches much of her research for a more immediate anti-aging pitch. Adding insult to injury, Jae-yeon discovers that her lab partner and lover enabled this betrayal; devastated, she leaves Seoul and escapes to the forest, continuing her research in the isolated greenhouse that gives the film its title.

 

Though Shin’s screenplay turns vaporously enigmatic, this setup is detailed in clean, clear strokes: It’s not hard to envision it as an origin story for a kind of warped arthouse superhero quest. The further the film retreats into the glimmering greenery, however, the more wandering and unwieldy its storytelling grows. Paralleling her narrative is that of ungainly, unpublished novelist Ji-hoon (Kim Tae-hun), who, following his own unhappy experience with creative plagiarism, discovers the young scientist’s story and becomes fascinated by her withdrawal from the outside (or should that be the inside?) world.

Yet as the film adopts Ji-hoon’s perspective on Jae-yeon’s increasingly unhinged efforts to physically blend with the foliage, his own character and motivations remain too watery to carry the film through to its reality-blurring climax. A flicker of attraction between these two outcast souls, meanwhile, never blossoms into a compelling relationship — partly the point in a film that advocates the fundamentally solitary nature of ideas and imagination, though a tough one on which to pin a human drama. Finally, “Glass Garden” may just side with plant life in all respects: “When trees branch out, they try not to hurt each other,” Jae-yeon dolefully muses, “but people are different.” Well, quite.

The trees certainly get all the best shots in Shin’s film, which progressively gains in visual interest what it loses in human connection. Some nifty digital trickery physicalizes Jae-yeon’s ideal of merging human skin and bark; a few stray images evoke an environmentally conscious David Cronenberg. Even as the film’s teased love story dissipates, Yun Ji-woon’s delicately lit lensing makes a romantic playground of our heroine’s verdant hideaway, which may become something of a fantasy realm: Its tangle upon tangle of spring-green branches, alternately laced with mist, moonbeams and dappled sunlight, encroach upon Ji-hoon’s psyche in the real world until, by the ambiguity-laden final act, it truly is hard to see the forest for the trees.

 

 

Busan Film Review: 'Glass Garden'

Reviewed at Busan Film Festival (opener), Oct. 14, 2017.

PRODUCTION: (South Korea) A LittleBig Pictures presentation of a June Film production in association with Capital One. (International sales: Finecut, Seoul.) Producer: Lim Francis Chung-keun. 

CREW: Director, screenplay: Shin Su-won. Camera (color): Yun Ji-woon. Editor: Lee Young-lim. Music: Ryu Jae-ah/

WITH: Moon Geun-young, Kim Tae-hun, Suh Tai-wha, Lim Jeong-woon, Park Ji-soo.

 

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10.15.17 #BIFF2017 'Glass Garden' open talk in Haeundae movie hall

 

 

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