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SHIN Dong-il

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SHIN Dong-il’s films deal with “relationship” in peculiar ways. <Host & Guest> (2005) showed a rapport between a cynical intellectual and a religious zealot with a happy-go-lucky attitude and <My Friend & His Wife> (2006) is about a love triangle of a woman and her two male lovers. His latest feature, <Bandhobi> (2009), depicts a friendship (or love) between a migrant worker and a Korean high school girl. All these relationships are grounded, ... expand

SHIN Dong-il’s films deal with “relationship” in peculiar ways. <Host & Guest> (2005) showed a rapport between a cynical intellectual and a religious zealot with a happy-go-lucky attitude and <My Friend & His Wife> (2006) is about a love triangle of a woman and her two male lovers. His latest feature, <Bandhobi> (2009), depicts a friendship (or love) between a migrant worker and a Korean high school girl. All these relationships are grounded, as the director puts, “here and now.” Shin has the unique sensibility of encapsulating a range of real social issues such as conflicts between different classes and ethnicities and surrealistic and religious topics such as salvation and atonement in his films, as exemplified by <My Friend & His Wife>. He unmasks more explicitly Korean society’s ill treatment of migrant workers in <Bandhobi>, which features the most unlikely of all the couples that appeared on Korean cinemas. close

Gender : Male
Company : Biashin Pictures

Nationality : South Korea
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