“Secret Sunshine” Wins As Best Picture at The Asian Film Awards

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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Alejandro Marivosa

Posted March 18, 2008 at 10:15 pm | Permalink

Don’t really get it. Absent the critique of Christianity, what was the film but another Korean wail-a-thon?
the_dog_catcha

Posted March 18, 2008 at 11:34 pm | Permalink

Oh congrats, congrats to all. c’mon.
day4night

Posted March 19, 2008 at 5:24 am | Permalink

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!
Nambangui horangi

Posted March 21, 2008 at 5:15 am | Permalink

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.

The Marmot’s Hole