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A Birthday
1st(1996) Wide Angle
Family · Aging · Comedy
- CountryKorea
- Production Year1995
- Running Time10 mins
- Format 35mm
- Colorcolor
Program Note
It′s a grandfather′s eightieth birthday party. The family′s gathered, but everyone′s busy, doing their own thing. The daughter frets over the dinner table while the gifts preoccupy the son. The son′s girlfriend can′t stop her hiccups while the daughter′s husband watches her secretly. As grandfather readies to blow out the birthday candles with eight flowers, he reminisces on himself as an eight-year-old boy.
Director
BYUN Hyuk
Born in 1966, Byun graduated from Korea University with degree in French Literature and studied filmmaking at Korean Film Academy and received MFA from University of Paris 8. He also graduated from FEMIS. With 1991’s He co-directed [Homo Videocus], with E. J. Yong and received Grand prize at San Francisco Film Festival, Critic’s Choice Award at Clermont-Ferrand. He continued to make short films, including [Froid] (1994), [Birthday] (1996) and [Orson] (1997). [Interview] is his first feature-length film.
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Credit
- Director BYUN Hyuk 변혁
- Cast Robert GOUGE, Marc ADJADJ, Ninon FIGGE, Laurent MELCER, Christophe VIALLET
- Screenplay David ELKAIM
- Cinematography Marie-Pierre EZAN
- Production Design Elodie MARTIN
- Editor Sarah ANDERSON
- Sound Aymeric DEVOLDERE
- Music Thierry CAROUBI
