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La Belle

Korean Panorama

Love/Romance · Suspense/Mystery · Psychology

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2000
  • Running Time96 min
  • Format35mm
  • Colorcolor
Program Note
One day, a magazine reporter receives a call from someone telling him take a woman, who works as a nude model, home. He takes this rain-soaked woman in and she becomes a part of his domestic life. But the woman runs away every night whenever she receives a phone call, desperately seeking to have her old lover back. When she returns alone each night, as the man comforts her with sex. Unfortunately, such love inevitably transforms into an obsession. La Belle is adapted from the director‘s own novel of last year Body. Yeo‘s captivating expressions remind us of Roland Barthes as they‘re evident in both his novel and in his film, with phrases like "I‘m in pain with her," for instance. These expressions are all absorbed within the man‘s monologues; the film unfolds from his first-person narration and from his point of view. A single subject and an object, or existence and absence... It‘s interesting to note the things that are repeatedly presented, accompanied by a piano solo, leading to a kind of minimalism of expression. The fact that two people carry out the entire film within a single space also draws viewer‘s attention. The end result of all this is like a visual essay written in pitch-black ink while sitting at an antique table.
Director
Director
Yeo Kyun-Dong
Born in Seoul, 1958. Upon graduating with a degree in Philosophy from Seoul National University, Yeo Kyun-Dong began seeking the production of multifaceted realism-based projects in various art forms. His directorial debut was Out to the World(1994) and his two subsequent features were Man?(1995) and Killer Story (1997). He is also a gifted actor who appeared in such films as To You, from Me, in addition to being a producer of 1996′s critically acclaimed film Green Fish. La Belle is his fourth feature films.
Credit
  • Director
    Yeo Kyun-Dong
  • ProducerYoo In-Taek
  • CastOh Ji-Ho
    Lee Ji-Hyun
  • ScreenplayYeo Kyun-Dong
    Lee Sang-Woo
  • CinematographyKim Jae-Ho
  • Production DesignKim Myoung-Kyoung
  • EditorLee Eun-Soo
  • SoundLee Young-Kil
  • MusicRoh Young-Sim
  • Production CompanyKeyweckshide
    keyweck@unitel.co.kr
  • World SalesCineclick Asia
    yjsuh@cineclick.co.kr
Photo
BNK부산은행
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한국수력원자력㈜
뉴트리라이트
두산에너빌리티
OB맥주 (한맥)
네이버
파라다이스 호텔 부산
한국거래소
드비치골프클럽 주식회사
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Busan Metropolitan City
Korean Film Council
BUSAN CINEMA CENTER