| Breath | |
|---|---|
| Hangul | 숨 |
| RR | Soom |
| MR | Sum |
| 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 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Admissions | 12,293[1] |
Breath (숨, Soom) is the fourteenth feature film by South Korean director Kim Ki-duk.
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A loner housewife, Yeon, deals with her depression and anger by beginning a passionate affair with a convicted man on death row. After discovering her husband’s infidelity, Yeon visits the prison where a notorious condemned criminal, Jin, is confined. She has been following the news reports of his numerous suicide attempts. Despite knowing Jin's crimes, Yeon treats him like an old lover and puts all her efforts into his happiness, even though she doesn't know him.
Breath was nominated for the Palme d'Or award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival,[2] although the prize was eventually awarded to the film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days". It has so far 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[3] In a comment that may go part of the way towards an explanation of the film's reception, Twitch's reviewer Derek Todd professes:[4]
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.
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