Word: chihwaseon
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...taek has amassed considerable critical acclaim: he has won every prize offered by South Korea’s three annual film awards ceremonies; received countless laurels from major international film festivals; and in 2002, he added a Best Director prize from Cannes to his trophy case for his film Chihwaseon...
...films selected for Kwon-taek’s hosted screenings at the HFA, Chunhyang and Chihwaseon, are his two most recent. Another film, Sopyonje, was screened Monday, March 7, but the director was not present...
...Chihwaseon is a sweeping historical epic that centers on the legendary nineteenth century Korean painter Jang Seung-up. Seung-up’s personal drama—his alcoholism, womanizing, and bitter struggle against the conservative academy that scorned his humble birth and unschooled talent—takes place in the milieu of the political and social upheaval resulting from and feeding into the Sino-Japanese...
That flaw aside, Chihwaseon is a brilliant film: it manages to be both epic and intimate in equal measure. By viewing it, I not only gained a working knowledge of the historical forces that gave rise to the modern, partitioned Korean state, but I also received tremendous insight into a uniquely creative and troubled mind. Kwon-taek’s Seung-up is not only a compelling figure unto himself, but a portal through which to see and understand modern Korean history...
...Archive will show Chunhyang, a romantic epic that, like several of Im’s films, is related by a traditional pansori singer—and which with its sweeping sets and lavish costumes, recalls both the Korean theatrical and Hollywood musical traditions from which it draws. Chihwaseon, a portrait of Korea’s great artist and brush master Jang Seung-up, will be playing Saturday night at 7; Sopyonje, on Monday...