Arirang (2011 film)

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Arirang
Arirang film poster.png
Festival poster
Hangul
아리랑
Revised Romanization Arirang
McCune–Reischauer Arirang
Production
company
Kim Ki-duk Film
Release date
Running time
100 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean

Arirang (Korean : 아리랑) is a 2011 South Korean documentary film by Kim Ki-duk. The film addresses a personal crisis Kim went through, sparked by an incident during the filming of his previous film, Dream , where the lead actress nearly died by hanging, and by the departure of a couple of close colleagues, including the director Jang Hoon. The title comes from a Korean folk song with the same title. In a heavily line-broken text released about the film, Kim writes that "Through Arirang I understand human beings, thank the nature, and accept my life as it is now." [1] Kim produced the film entirely on his own. [1] It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prix un certain regard.

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Release

The film premiered on 13 May at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in Un Certain Regard. [2] Kim only did one interview at the festival, where he said that he felt better than when he made the film, and that it had helped him cure himself. At one occasion during the interview, Kim suddenly started to sob and sang "Arirang". [3]

Reception

After attending the festival screening in Cannes, Variety's Leslie Felperin wrote: "Further evidence, as if it were needed, that digital is both the liberation of low-budget filmmaking and the enabler of self-indulgence". Felperin went on to call Arirang "An experience that can be likened only to being stuck next to a drunk in a bar who keeps reminding you he used to be famous, all his friends are bastards and he now understands the meaning of life". [4] In Screen Daily , Dan Fainaru called it "the ultimate 'film d'auteur'", and wrote: "Doing it justice in a short review is almost impossible, not because Kim Ki-duk is providing revolutionary insights into his line of work, but because he raises numerous issues that are too often ignored as irrelevant or pedantic by professionals who should know better." [5] Peter Bradshaw wrote: "It is the most extravagantly self-indulgent piece of pure loopiness imaginable – but gripping as well. A piece of experimentalism at odds with convention." [6]

The film won the Prize of Un Certain Regard, [6] the top award for best film in the section. The win was shared with the German film Stopped on Track , directed by Andreas Dresen. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "English press kit Arirang" (PDF). Finecut. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  2. ↑ "Horaires 2011" (PDF). festival-cannes.com (in French). Cannes Film Festival. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Park Min-young (16 May 2011). "Kim Ki-duk's one-man production creates a stir". The Korea Herald . Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  4. ↑ Felperin, Leslie (13 May 2011). "Arirang". Variety . Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  5. ↑ Fainaru, Dan (14 May 2011). "Arirang". Screen Daily . Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  6. 1 2 Bradshaw, Peter (7 June 2012). "Arirang – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  7. ↑ Leffler, Rebecca (21 May 2011). "Un Certain Regard Announces Top Prizes (Cannes 2011)". The Hollywood Reporter . Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2011.

Publications

MARTONOVA, (2012) A. To feel HAN (Arirang by Kim Ki-duk) // Kino, No.3, Sofia:p. 49-47, ISSN 0861-4393 [Да чувстваш ХАН („Ариран" на Ким Ки-док). – Original title in Bulgarian]

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