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Time to Read Poems

21st(2016) Wide Angle

Literature · True Story · Women · Films about Film  

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2016
  • Running Time74min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
This film talks about five free spirits as the director encounters them. Freedom in this film is not romantic but desperate, trying to break the chains of life that drive people living today in one direction. They dream of a life that doesn’t have to take a job as a dream, or pursue economic stability as a life goal, but on that finds true meaning. This is something people all dream of realizing yet end up accepting as nothing but a fantasy. The film delivers the voice of people who try to cope with the ordeal of being imprisoned and free at the same time. Another name for freedom is poetry. To read poems is to enter a formless collection of times, not a purpose-oriented time that exhibits an array of things to be done. In this sense, the film seems to be a poem itself. It doesn’t march forward to a certain thematic consciousness but develops in an open structure with simple mise-en-scène. By doing so it makes audiences ask themselves: “Is my life indeed okay?” The film chooses to remind “me” of “myself” instead of removing it. “I,” revealed in text and voices, am the center of the network and the protagonist of the “time to read poems.” The film follows, finds and investigates me as who I am.
Director
Director
LEE Soojung
After a stint in the directing department of veteran director Im Kwon-taek, Lee began making documentaries for the National Cinema Research Center and Hankyoreh Film Production House. Following this, she moved into TV documentaries and produced narrative films before trying her hand at independent documentaries in 2011. Her films include: Jinsuk & Me (2012) and Cruel State (2015).
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Credit
  • Director LEE Soojung 이수정
  • Cast Hana OH, Soodeok KIM, Taehyung AHN, Jaechoon LIM, Mu HAMA
  • Cinematography Mincheol WANG
  • Editor Dongsun KO
  • Production Company Mitte des Lebens
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