BREATH (SOOM)

South Korea - 2007 - 35 mm, 87 min.

Director:
  KIM KI-DUK
Script: Kim Ki-duk.
Production: Kim Ki-duk Film Co., Ltd.
Cast: Chen Chang, Park Ji-a, Ha Jung-woo, Kim Ki-duk.
Section:
  AS - Asian Selection
Screenings:
Cines Aribau Club 1 - 30/04 - 22:30
Cines Aribau Club 1 - 03/05 - 19:30

Kim Ki-duk is one of the leading figures of Korean cinema and a regular at the most prestigious international film festivals. His movies, with their long shots and eloquent silences, have made him one of the few cult directors to be commercially distributed. On this occasion the director tells the story of a woman in love with a prisoner who has been sentenced to death. It all begins when Hyun finds out that her husband is cheating on her with another woman. She then decides to go and visit a prisoner whose constant suicide attempts have been in the news on television. The two gradually get to know each other and fall in love. The woman decides to tell her husband she is seeing another man, which makes him jealous. He follows her to the jail and forbids her to see the prisoner. However, they are far more closely united than might be imagined. The film was shot in ten days and once again the Korean director presents us with a movie in which the silences and stillness are the protagonists of this love story.

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