My Beautiful Girl, Mari

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My Beautiful Girl, Mari
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Seong-kang Lee
Written by	Su-jeong Kang Seong-kang Lee Mi-ae Seo
Music by	Byung-woo Lee
Cinematography	Geun-wook Kwon
Editing by	Gok-ji Park
Distributed by	(USA) ADV Films
Release date(s)	January 18, 2002 (South Korea)
Running time	80 min
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
IMDb profile

My Beautiful Girl, Mari (Korean: 마리 이야기, Mari Iyagi, 2002), also known as My Beautiful Girl Mari, is a critically successful South Korean animated film. It follows the story of a young boy during summer vacation and ascends into flights of surrealistic fantasy, which may or may not be dream sequences.

[edit] Plot

Nam-woo struggles through life as people around him constantly leave him; his best friend is going to study in Seoul and in some ways his widowed mother is "leaving" him too by paying more attention to her new boyfriend. To escape, he goes to a dream world, where he meets a girl named Mari. The story follows Nam-woo in discovering himself and growing up.

[edit] Awards

• Grand Prix Winner (Best Feature Film) at the 26th Annecy International Animated Film Festival (Annecy, France)

[edit] External links

• My Beautiful Girl Mari at the Internet Movie Database
• "frames per second magazine" - My Beautiful Girl, Mari: The blossoming of Korean animation.