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| Two takes on love clinch Busan film prize Posted: 12 Oct 2013 08:32 AM PDT Jurors in the New Currents award at the 18th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) lauded Korean director Ahn Song-Kyoung's Pascha for its "intimate, highly original expression of an unusual love story". At the same time they hailed Remote Control, from Mongolia's Byamba Sakhya, as a "sharply observed portrait of the tensions between city and country, reality and fiction". Both filmmakers receive US$30,000 (RM95,400) for the award, which offers two prizes and is open to first and second-time Asian directors. The prizes will be formally presented at BIFF's closing ceremony Saturday night. Ahn's film tells the heart-breaking tale of a 40-year-old woman trying to hold on to her 17-year-old boyfriend and the second-time director said she had wanted to focus on the turning points in people's lives. "I am interested in the moments in life when we become disillusioned and are forced to make decisions," she explained. Meanwhile Sakhya's look at a romantic obsession one neighbor develops for the other was designed to highlight a Mongolian society that is in "transition", the director said. "The whole system is changing," said Sakhya. "It's challenging for everyone but it is still full of hope." The New Currents jurors also awarded a Special Mention to the Philippine's Hannah Espia's for Transit, a moving account of migrant life in Israel, which they said focused on an "unknown dimension" of life. The film had been put forward as the Philippine selection for Oscar consideration. The Busan festival sold just over 217,000 admission tickets for the 299 films screened over its 10-day run and has played host to a number of international and Asian stars, among them Oscar-winner Quentin Tarantino and the Oscar-nominated Japanese actor Ken Watanabe. Among the highlights for international guests has been the chance to catch Korean director Bong Joon-ho's English-language sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer, a box office smash here and a film which is being prepared for international distribution. Oscar-winning Irish director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) delighted local audiences by saying that film world was looking to Korea for inspiration - after a record-breaking year at the local box office - and a wealth of talent in local cinema was certainly to the fore. He cited Lee Yu-Bin's whimsical coming-of-age road trip Shuttlecock and the more commercially driven revenge thriller Dynamite Man, from director Jeong Hyuk-Won, as two examples. Another production which created a buzz was Jung Yoon-Suk's gripping Non-fiction Diary, named BIFF's best Korean documentary. The film casts its gaze on a series of brutal murders in the 1990s, as well as two political scandals, as it shines an often bleak light on contemporary Korean history. BIFF closes Saturday night with the world premiere of the Korean family drama The Dinner, directed by Kim Dong-hyun. - AFP/Relaxnews, October 12, 2013. |
| Emma Watson to star in While We’re Young Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:15 PM PDT Emma Watson will join American writer and director Stephen Chbosky on the set of While We're Young, an adaptation of 29, a novel by Adena Halper. The two worked together in the past for The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a coming-of-age drama which premiered to critical acclaim last winter. Focusing on the theme of mother-daughter relationships, While We're Young tells the story of how a 75-year-old grandmother becomes 29 again for one day. She goes on an adventure with her granddaughter, also approaching 30, while attempting to pacify her relationship with her daughter, aged 55. The feature will be based on a screenplay by Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter, the duo behind (500) Days of Summer (2009) and The Spectacular Now (2013). The film will be produced by Fox, which has yet to announce shooting or release dates, Deadline.com reports. - AFP Relaxnews, October 12, 2013. |
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