3/16/2023 0 Comments Movist com![]() * Isn't this film in some sense a story of their love as destiny? But the important thing was that she left her comfortable life, and that no one else but her made the choice. I don't say that An Affair is a feminist film. Also, I tried to deal with my perspective on woman's issues. This was my attempt to escape from conventional films which explain the reasons for the affair and punish the woman. In some sense she had a very happy family, but it just happened. Lee Mi-sook was falling in love without any special reason. I wanted to free myself from those typical boundaries. Formerly, Korean melodramas have typically taken issue with a bad husband, the surplus masculinity at home, oppressed desires and so on. What I kept in mind was that I was going to make it differently from the past melodramas of Korea. What did you think that you could do with melodrama? Unlike Rainer Werner Fassbinder who used melodrama to criticize German society of the time, you don't deal with socio-political contexts in An Affair. * You have chosen Ali: Fear Eats the Soul as the 'movie of my life' at Cine21 magazine. I am also grateful for choosing the right format, having sufficient finance and meeting a good producer. I was very lucky to be able to work with experts in each field such as cinematography, lighting, art design, etc., who I would never have the chance to work with on an independent film. Maybe I could learn more from making a movie with a strong narrative, which feels difficult to me. Then, I got an offer from producer Oh Jeong-wan and thought that this kind of film could be more challenging for me. When I was young, I used to think that I should make challenging films. Was there any particular reason that you chose An Affair as your debut film? * After the project The Story of a City was stopped, you kept silent for three years. Interview by Nam Dong-cheol published in Cine21 on Nov. Distributed by Hanmac Films/Cinema Service. Starring Lee Mi-sook (Seo-hyun), Lee Jung-jae (U-in), Kim Min (Ji-hyun), Song Young-chang (Jun-il), Lee Woo-hyun (Jin-soo). After meeting him, the woman feels a strong unconscious attraction to him, which appears to be reciprocated. A married woman gets a phone call from her sister in the US, asking her to meet her fiance who is in Seoul. E J-yong Info Sheet Compiled by Lee EunhyeĪN AFFAIR (1998) ("Jeongsa") Directed by E J-yong.
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