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World Premiere American Daylight

A Window on Asian Cinema

Love/Romance · Social Criticism · Capitalism

  • CountryIndia
  • Production Year2004
  • Running Time98min
  • Format35mm
  • ColorCOLOR
Program Note
Under the name of globalization, all banking and insurance-related business enquiries from the United States and Europe are answered from toll-free numbers, with operators provided from India′s cheap workforce. Sue, who just started her career in a call center, comes to know a millionaire named Lawrence and falls in love with him. Later, Lawrence comes to India to see her but their romance is interrupted by hit men trying to kill the millionaire. Escaping from danger, they leave India for the United States. The stereotyped manners and voices of call center recruits sometimes dont sound like real humans, making it difficult for callers to imagine that someone on the other line is a real person. Personality and characteristic natures are completely hidden beneath the formal and limited responses they repeat, leaving no room for true communication. Perhaps, Sue′s kindness and eagerness to help Lawrence can be viewed as a type of love but the plot in which a poor but young beautiful woman falls in love with a rich man and throws away her dull boring daily life is just another Cinderella story. More so, people in India first started learning English during the colonial period. That explains why the scene in which Sue from the Third world of the post-colonization era smiles at the night view of Manhattan while the American millionaire does not look happy at all. (Oak Mina)
Director
Director
Roger CHRISTIAN
Roger Christian has had an extensive film career, including a long collaboration with George Lucas on movies such as Star Wars, for which Christian won an Academy Award for set decoration, Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Christian’s directorial debut was a short feature entitled Black Angel, which accompanied the UK release of The Empire Strikes Back. He followed that film with another short, The Dollar Bottom, which won the 1981 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. His other films include: Nostradamus, The Final Cut, Underworld, Masterminds, Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000, and Bandidos.
Credit
  • Director
    Roger CHRISTIAN
  • ProducerSondeep Singh Bedi
  • CastKoel Purie
    Vijay Raaz
    Nick Moran
  • ScreenplayFarrukh Dhondy
  • CinematographyHimman Dhamlia
  • Production DesignYogendra Tyagl
  • EditorAlan Strachnan
  • SoundRobert Taylor
  • MusicAmaan Ali Rangash
    Ayaan Ali Rangash
  • Production CompanyKaleidoscope Entertainment Put. LTD.
    kaleidoscope@hathway.com
Photo
BNK Busan Bank
GENESIS
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Co., Ltd.
NUTRILITE
NAVER
카카오 오픈채팅
PARADISE HOTEL BUSAN
Korea Exchange
POSCO
Shinhan Card
Debeach Golf Club
TOPTEN10
CJ CGV
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Busan Metropolitan City
Korean Film Council
BUSAN CINEMA CENTER