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HanSel anD GreTel<br />
HANSEL GUA GRETEL<br />
U.S. PREMIERE<br />
SOUTH KOrea<br />
2008<br />
116 min<br />
Dir Yim Phil-Sung<br />
PrOD Choi Jae-Won, Seo Woo-Sik<br />
Scr Kim Min-Sook, Yim Phil-Sung<br />
cam Kim Jee-Yong<br />
eD Kim Sun-Min<br />
mUS Lee Byeong-Woo<br />
caST Chun Jeong-Myoung, Eun Won-Jae, Shim<br />
Eun-Kyoung, Jin Ji-Hee<br />
PrinT SOUrce Finecut, 4F, Incline Bldg, 891-<br />
37, Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South<br />
Korea. FAX: 822-569-9466. EMAIL: cineinfo@<br />
finecut.co.kr.<br />
Talents as varied as Angela Carter, Jean Cocteau, Walt<br />
Disney and Terry Gilliam have all mined the fertile ground<br />
of Grimm fairy tales to create memorable work. In Hansel<br />
and Gretel, director Yim Phil-Sung takes the familiar story<br />
and transforms it to offer an unsettling cautionary tale<br />
about what happens when kids get everything they want.<br />
It all begins when Lee Eun-Soo (Chun Jeong-Myoung)<br />
crashes his car and is rescued by a girl in a bright red<br />
cape. She brings him to her house in the woods, and<br />
introduces him to her two siblings and the overly cheerful<br />
parental figures residing there. Everything in the toy-laden<br />
home smacks of spoiled children and hyper-attentive<br />
parents—but the truth is a little more sinister than that.<br />
When Lee tries to return to his car, for example, he finds it<br />
impossible to find his way back to the road. His cell phone<br />
doesn’t get a signal and can’t make outgoing calls from<br />
the house. And the television plays without being plugged<br />
in. When the mother disappears and a strange new couple<br />
arrives, matters get even more disturbing. Twisting the<br />
fairytale to constantly disrupt viewer assumptions about<br />
heroes and villains, Yim cleverly riffs on the story’s conceits<br />
while commenting on kids’ expectations of their parents<br />
and vice versa. With eye-popping art direction, a trio of<br />
terrific child actors and a passel of disquieting moments,<br />
Hansel and Gretel is a Grimm delight.<br />
—Rod Armstrong<br />
Yim PHil-SUnG<br />
Director Yim Phil-Sung began making films in 1997. His short<br />
Baby played at the Venice and Karlovy Vary festivals. His first<br />
feature, Antarctic Journal, explores a series of mysterious<br />
deaths in the Antarctic and won the Orient Express Award at<br />
the 38th Sitges <strong>Festival</strong> of Fantastic <strong>Film</strong>. He made Hansel and<br />
Gretel under the aegis of film company Barunson, which also<br />
produced The Good, the Bad and the Weird.<br />
FRI APR 24 11:15 KABUKI HANS24K<br />
MON APR 27 3:15 KABUKI HANS27K<br />
THU APR 30 7:00 ROXIE HANS30R<br />
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