Hong Kong actor Tony Leung with Jeon Do-Yeon as best actor and actress
Lee Chang-dong’s picture Secret Sunshine has won in the best picture category at the 2008 Asian Film Awards. Jeon Do-yeon has also won “best actress” for her role in the film. Congratulations to all.
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Don’t really get it. Absent the critique of Christianity, what was the film but another Korean wail-a-thon?
Oh congrats, congrats to all. c’mon.
I think they deserve it. I found Secret Sunshine to be a wonderful, deep movie that may fail for many people because it’s too floppy, like a novel, but which has great ambition in terms of story, character and visual aesthetic.
Lee Chang-dong rocks!
I finally managed to see Secret Sunshine yesterday at a showing at my university. I agree with #3. This is a brilliant, thought-provoking film that offers perhaps the best meditation on the problem of faith in a harsh world that I’ve ever come across. I didn’t find it to be a wail-a-thon at all. The handling of tragedy is done in such a way as to focus on much deeper issues, not to create some pop tearjerker. Lee Chang-dong and Jeon Do-yeon deserve all the accolades they’ve received, as far as I’m concerned.
If you toss in Peppermint Candy and Oasis (although maybe not Green Fish), I’d be willing to give my vote to Lee as the world’s finest currently working director.
Years after most, I finally watched this movie last night. It was good, as good as I have come to expect from Lee Chang-dong. It contained much less wailing than I have come to expect from a Korean movie about tragedy.
I would like to add Jeon tae-il (1995, English title A Single Spark) and Geu seome gago shibda (1993, English title To the Starry Island) to the list of must-see movies that he has been involved in the making of. I have not seen Green Fish yet.
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