Korean Film Fesitval 2006
Last weekend some friends and I went to the Korean Film Festival at the ART Theatre downtown. They were only playing one film the night we went, and that film was The Unforgiven. Overall I liked the film, but the cinematography could have definitely used some work. The movie was obviously shot on some sort of digital medium, probably miniDV, so the quality of the picture was okay at best. The lenses used through the film did not provide enough depth of field to blur out the backgrounds, and this made anything going on behind the subject in perfect focus and a perfect distraction. Other than those two gripes the movie was awesome. The acting was right on, and the story was original.
The next day the festival was playing several other movies, including Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Sad Movie. Unfortunately I did not get to attend them, as work ran later than I expected and went right on to the middle of the last film of the night. Hopefully next year I’ll get to see a lot of movies if I study in Seoul.