18 Titles Invited to Asian Film Festival in France
The Vesoul International Festival of Asian Cinema will return on February 3rd. For its 22nd edition, the festival will host 18 films from South Korea, including 16 in a special retrospective dedicated to cinematic adaptations of Korean literature.
The ‘South Korea: Cinema and Literature’ retrospective will highlight select works that were brought to the screen, including
SHIN Sang-ok’s
Mother And A Guest (1961),
KIM Soo-yong’s
The Seashore Village (1965),
JANG Sun-woo’s
A Petal (1996) and
LEE Chang-dong’s
Secret Sunshine (2007), based on novels by, respectively,
JU Yo-sup, OH Young-su, CHOI Yun and
YI Chung-jun. In an introductory note, Vesoul explains that “Korean literature had its fate dictated with the hazards of history, while it kept listening to the people. With their reinterpretation of western literary trends on a Korean context, modern writers established a quite unique literary heritage of its kind.”