JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
SATURDAY 22ND FEBRUARY
OUR SUNHI
U RI SUNHI
Korea’s poet laureate of infantile male intellectuals
and the women who bewitch them delivers one
of his most appealing recent efforts in Our Sunhi.
Winner of the director prize in Locarno, Hong’s 15th
feature delights as it orchestrates the seriocomic
ping-ponging of a canny young woman and her
three equally hapless suitors.
Wonderfully played by the gamine Jung Yu-mi (in her
fifth collaboration with Hong), Sunhi is a recent film
school grad first seen returning to her alma mater
to solicit a recommendation letter from her former
teacher, Professor Choi (Kim Sang-joong). There’s just
one caveat: he can only write an ‘honest’ letter.
‘another pleasurable, loquacious and low-key film’
The Hollywood Reporter
Sat 22 Feb / Light House 3 / 2pm / 88 minutes
Writer-director: Hong Sang-soo 2013 Italy/Switzerland/France
Cast: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Sang-joong
Winner, Silver Leopard, Locarno Film Festival
While grabbing a beer at a nearby chicken restaurant,
Sunhi encounters her ex-boyfriend Mun-su (Hong
regular Lee Sun-kyun). As the beer flows, it becomes
all too clear that Munsu still hankers for his ex. The
plot thickens with the introduction of curmudgeonly
fellow film-maker Jae-hak (Jung Jae-young). Hong
has a lot of fun orchestrating these various comings
and goings which, as in a classic farce, revolve around
the idea of all three men pursuing the same woman
without realizing it.
Scott Foundas
Variety
HAUS TUGENDHAT
‘Tugendhat’ is a legendary word in modern design;
the name refers to the seminal house created by
the German architect Mies van der Rohe for the
Tugendhat family outside Brno in the Czech Republic
in 1930. This beautiful and reflective documentary
acknowledges the house as a modernist monument
but is more absorbed by its role as catalyst for
human events in the years after its construction –
interactions which reflect on the wider travails of
20th-century European history.
Sat 22 Feb / Light House 1 / 2.45pm / 116 minutes
Director: Dieter Reifarth 2013 Germany
Presented in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Irland
Intelligently interweaving the restoration of the house
and searing interviews with surviving Tugendhat
siblings, it slowly unpicks family truths, from the
Shangri-La of childhood, through exile (for being
Jewish in the wrong place and time) to uncertain
attempts at remaking the dream elsewhere. The
most beautiful words are left to the ordinary Czechs
with spinal injuries who lived there as children under
Communism, and who simply revered its light, space
and architecture – underscoring the film’s theme
about the relationship between people and the hard
and complex nature of brilliant things.
Niall McCullough
McCullough Mulvin Architects
With special guest Michael Guggenheim
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