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World Premiere Barbie

Korean Cinema Today

Children · Family · Psychology

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2011
  • Running Time97min
  • FormatHD
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
An extraordinary independent filmmaker, Lee Sang-woo returns to the Busan International Film Festival with this controversial ‘big budget’ feature, made for some cost of $100,000. [Father is a Dog], Lee’s extremely low budget film, made quite a stir at last year’s festival. His new film is a cynical road map of ‘adoption paradise’, Korea, in family drama form. The family in question is dysfunctional to the extreme. The mother is never there for her family and the father is disabled. The prodigal uncle schemes to give his niece up for adoption and the little sister insists on going for the adoption in place of her sister, purely out of her own vanity, not knowing the adoption in this case may mean death. It is wonderful to see Lee have the opportunity to work with a budget generous enough to allow him to realize his unique artistic vision in a project with production values to rival any commercial feature. And yet, despite its glossier look, this new film maintains the same critical edge of Lee’s earlier works. Like the second son in [Father is a Dog], the daughter in Barbie turns down the chance to realize the American Dream for the sake of her cursed family, while her disabled father tries to protect her, and yet all ends with lingering sadness in the director’s unique violent allegory. Lee Chun-hee in the role of uncle, and Kim Se-ron and Kim A-ron’s performances are all impressive. (JEON Chanil)
Director
Director
LEE Sang-woo
Born in 1971, Lee Sang-woo graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Cinema. He started his career working at the San Francisco Korean Film Festival and American Student Film Festival. His first feature [Tropical Manila](2008) was invited to the Rotterdam Int’l FF and he got international attention before he was known to Korean audience. [Mother Is a Whore] (2009) and [Father Is a Dog] (2010) were each presented at Hong Kong Int’l FF and Busan Int’l FF.
Credit
  • Director
    LEE Sang-woo
  • ProducerCHA Sung jai
    KIM Tae yeong
  • CastKIM A ron
    KIM Se ron
    Cat TEBO
    LEE Chun hee
  • ScreenplayLEE Sang woo
  • CinematographyKIM Min su
  • Production DesignKIM Yun kyung
  • EditorLEE Sang woo
  • SoundJUNG Kee chul
  • MusicKANG Min kuk
  • Production CompanyINDICOM MEDIA
    Barbie-2011@naver.com
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