Breath (film)

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Breath

Directed by	Kim Ki-duk
Written by	Kim Ki-duk
Starring	Chang Chen Park Ji-ah
Music by	Kim Myeong-jong
Cinematography	Seong Jong-mu
Editing by	Wang Su-an
Distributed by	Sponge
Release date(s)	April 26, 2007^[1]
Running time	84 min.
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Admissions	12,293^[1]
KMDb profile
IMDb profile
Korean name
Hangul	숨
Revised Romanization	Sum

Breath (숨, Sum) is the fourteenth feature film by South Korean director Kim Ki-duk.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Plot

After discovering her husband's infidelity, Yeon develops an interest in condemned criminal Jang Jin. Although she doesn't know him, Yeon visits Jin in prison and performs songs for him.

[edit] Cast

Chang Chen ... Jang Jin
Park Ji-ah ... Yeon
Ha Jeong-woo ... Yeon's husband
Kang In-hyeong ... Young prisoner
Kim Ki-duk ... Prison warden

[edit] Reception

"Breath" was nominated for the Palme d'Or award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, although the prize was eventually awarded to the film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days". It has so fair attained mixed reviews; Variety Magazine's Derek Elley concluded that the film was 'a far less ambitious work than "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring", one of the director's most internationally successful films from 2003^[2] In a comment that may go part of the way towards an explanation of the film's reception, Twitch's reviewer Derek Todd professes:^[3]

I really wanted to love this film, but there’s just a little too much left unexplored and unexplained, and I was left with a feeling of wanting to have had more of these characters lives.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Box-Office Admission Results (2007), Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved on April 2, 2008.
^ Variety Magazine's review of Breath by Derek Elley, retrieved April 18, 2008.
^ Twitch's review of Breath by Derek Todd, retrieved April 18, 2008

[edit] External links

Breath at the Internet Movie Database
Breath at the Korean Movie Database
Breath at HanCinema
Breath at Festival De Cannes

v • d • e Films directed by Kim Ki-duk

Crocodile (1996) · Wild Animals (1996) · Birdcage Inn (1998) · Real Fiction (2000) · The Isle (2000) · Address Unknown (2001) · Bad Guy (2002) · The Coast Guard (2002) · Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) · Samaritan Girl (2004) · 3-Iron (2004) · The Bow (2005) · Time (2006) · Breath (2007) · Sad Dream (2008)

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