My Beautiful Girl, Mari
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| My Beautiful Girl, Mari | |
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 Theatrical poster |
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| 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 |
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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
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
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.
Spoilers end here.
[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.
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