[Warning -- contains spoilers] I have spent nearly two weeks tangling with Secret Sunshine, Korean director Lee Chang-dong's 2007 film only released in the United States a mere month ago. In Korean, with English subtitles. The movie seems sterile at times but has tight intriguing moments and transformations at times that it feels fresh and is therefore modern. There is nothing to do but believe in her.And yet the sheer, fearless intensity Ms. Jeon brings to “Secret Sunshine” would overwhelm the film were it not balanced by Mr. Song’s relaxed geniality. Evidence 1: In E-Turtle Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, at the scene where the turtles are stopped by Splinter’s subconscious for the first time, Leo was the first to be attacked then Donnie. But especially once grief knocks the wind out of her, she takes her place in Lee’s growing gallery of remarkable heroines. Play Sound. (Nor does she shed the decorous tears of a gracefully suffering heroine: raging against an unjust universe and an indifferent God, she bawls, heaves, retches, all but turns herself inside out.) Although early releases with both Sarah and A Turntable Friend followed the more linear Sarah pop stylings, the 1992 release Untouched broke into unapologetic shoegazing territory, earning the band many comparisons with Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. Shin-ae is clearly fallible, a loving mother who makes poor parenting decisions, and she can be something of a cipher (we can only guess what compelled her to make a fresh start in a place with ties to her past, or why she’s estranged from most of her family and from her in-laws). Secret Sunshine. “Secret Sunshine” — a 2007 film by Lee Chang-dong now making a tardy but welcome American debut — takes place in a South Korean town called Miryang, described by … ***Mild Spoilers*** Chillingly real and enigmatic, Secret Sunshine is a film that makes sense when considering the actions of the characters but what makes it uneasy is that it wraps up not a single character arc. NOTE: The following essay contains spoilers. Jun is kidnapped and held for ransom (Shin-ae’s search for a plot of land to buy, apparently a put-on, has led to the perception around town that she’s well-off), and he’s eventually found dead by a riverbank. Please do not use ALL CAPS. Career 1990 to 1996. On its surface the transparent and horrifying tale of a mother’s grief, “Secret Sunshine” has the kind of emotional depth and thematic complexity that rewards repeat viewings. This intricacy is perhaps most readily apparent in the two key turning points of After a spell of relative stability, having convinced herself to accept “God’s will,” Shin-ae decides to visit the killer in jail to offer her forgiveness. It’s not hard for viewers to guess that Lee’s films are filled with complex truths such as these, which are never asserted but emerge through a suggestive accumulation of details and through performances that resist simple psychological vectors and instead bespeak wayward crosscurrents of emotion. Conjuring a picture of absolute darkness, it nonetheless casts a beam of light.Some of this comes from Ms. Jeon, who started out on South Korean television and who deservedly won the award for best female performance in Cannes for this role. God has beaten her to it, and taken away her one opportunity to gain some semblance of meaning and control as her life spins away from her.As Lee has written her—and as Jeon Do-yeon plays her, in a risky, volatile, utterly vanity-free performance—Shin-ae is never the blameless martyr commonly found in maternal melodramas. Kim is described, in a conversation with one of his friends, as a character more at home in comedy than in melodrama, which describes his role in Shin-ae’s life, and Mr. Song’s in the film, almost too perfectly.To praise the perfection of “Secret Sunshine” would be to risk misrepresenting its main virtue, which is its attention to minor infelicities and inconveniences as well as to unspeakable crimes and intolerable heartaches. But further disappointments and devastations lie in store, as the film, without succumbing to glib cynicism, refuses any easy route toward comfort or redemption.How do you make a movie about an unbearable experience that is not itself unbearable? It is a great movie, by a major figure in world cinema.Written and directed by Lee Chang-dong, based on a story by Yi Chong-jun; director of photography, Cho Yong-kyu; edited by Kim Hyun; music by Christian Basso; production design by Sihn Jeom-hui; costumes by Cha Sun-young and Kim Nuri; produced by Hanna Lee; released by IFC Films. Fox really dropped the ball with promotion and distribution. From As Shin-ae lurches from one emotional extreme to another,Dennis Lim is director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the author of Once dismissed as overly topical, this New German Cinema masterpiece is now regarded as an enduringly relevant indictment of surveillance capitalism and patriarchal oppression.The first Iranian film to win the Palme d’Or, Abbas Kiarostami’s tale of one man’s despair leaves the question of whether life is worth living unanswered.Hollywood has never produced a comedy more acutely witty, more sexually playful, or more unexpectedly moving than this flawlessly engineered masterpiece by Preston Sturges.With his grace, power, and purpose, the martial artist turned himself into a global pop-culture icon, showing audiences what it takes to advance through the everyday labor of life.Get info about new releases, essays and interviews on the Current, Top 10 lists, and sales.
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