Bakha satang (1999)

aka Peppermint Candy

Slo naslov: -

Angleški naslov: Peppermint Candy

Država: Južna Koreja

Jezik: korejščina

Leto: 1999

Dolžina: 129',  Imdb

Žanri: drama

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Lee Chang-dong

Scenarij: Lee Chang-dong

Igrajo: Sol Kyung-Gu, Moon So-Ri, Kim Yeo-Jin, Ko Seo-Hee, Seo Jung, Kim In-Kwon

[ENG]

An intense, emotional masterpiece of Korean New Wave, Peppermint Candy is told in reverse, taking the viewers back through 20 years of a doomed man's life, while chronicling the sentiments and changes of modern Korea.

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Peppermint Candy is a 1999 film, the second from South Korean director Lee Chang-dong. The movie starts with the suicide of the protagonist and uses reverse chronology to depict some of the key events of the past 20 years of his life that led to his death. It was the ninth highest grossing domestic film of 2000 with 311,000 admissions in Seoul.

It was received well, especially in film festivals. Spurred by the success of Lee Chang-dong's directorial debut, Green Fish, Peppermint Candy was chosen as the opening film for the Pusan International Film Festival in its first showing in 1999. It won multiple awards at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won the South Korean cinema industry's Grand Bell Awards for best film of 2000.

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