2000 · drama · romance · korean
Chunhyang
Directed by Im Kwon-taek2h 16m2000
Once at a pagoda Mongryong Lee, a scion of a well-to-do family, meets Chunhyang, the young daughter of a courtesan and an aristocrat. Despite her low social standing she is smart and well-educated. The young people fall in love and think about marriage so that they could always be together. Mongryong is soon to go to the capital to take the state civil service exam. They part and in Chunhyang's life there appears the greedy and lustful Byun Hak-do, who tries to seduce her.
Our read: Chunhyang (2000) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · romance · korean entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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