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A Moment to Die For
Special Programs in Focus
Crime/Violence · Love/Romance · Suspense/Mystery · Politics/Conspiracy
- CountryKorea
- Production Year1988
- Running Time95min
- Format35mm
- ColorCOLOR
Program Note
PIFF is proud to present the world premiere of this posthumously discovered work in commemoration of the late Kim Ki-Young. Made in 1988, A Moment to Die For its consistent with his body of work which including The Housemaid, The insect Woman and Iodo, exemplify the director′s obsession with sex and the passion for life. A man demands a divorce from his wife for failing to bear him a son. Another woman is obsessed with having a child, but because her husband is infertile, she sleeps with other men in hopes of conceiving. The two women meet by chance and join forces to bring about the downfall of their husbands. The film is structured around the dichotomy between the castrated man and the woman driven by desire, a theme typical in Kim′s work. Passion for life also resonates in this film. As indicated in its original title, Angel Turned Devil Woman, females are chameleons who change according to their desires. The younger woman in this film transforms herself from a traditional wife to a modern woman. Yoon Yeo-Jung, the lead actress in The Insect Woman, returns as the hysterical older woman desperate for a child. By also delving into obsession with death, the film presents audiences with grotesque fantasies of sex and mortality, "Kim Ki-Young style." (Lee Yong-Kwan)
Director

Kim Ki-Young
Director Kim Ki-Young was born in 1922. He went to study in Japan, eventually graduating with a medical degree from Seoul National University. He began his career as a film director in 1955 with The Box of Death. His thirty two directing credits, including the just discovered A Moment to Die For, have a special place in Korean film history. Relying heavily on the use of realism and expressionism in his early films, Kim made a breakthrough with the 1960 masterpiece The Housemaid. In a series of films including The Housemaid, The Woman of Fire, The Insect Woman and The Woman of Fire (82), he disclosed the hypocrisy of the happy middle-class family with his unique composition of screen space presenting grotesque images of catastrophic triangular relationship. Not only was Kim Ki-Young a director tenaciously pursuing the basic instincts and carnal desires of human beings, he was also a social commentator who perceived his pictures as parodies of our everyday lives. This year′s special screening of A Moment to Die For is an opportunity to pay tribute to one of the truly remarkable directors of all time, and a unique individual in the history of world cinema.
Credit
- Director
Kim Ki-Young - ProducerLee Hak-Jae
- CastYoon Yeo-Jung
- CinematographyHam Nam-Sup
- EditorHyun Dong-Choon
- MusicHan Sang-Ki
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