Lee Chang-Dong at County Museum

Four features by the surging South Korean cinema's impressive new master Lee Chang-Dong screen at the L.A. County Museum over the next three days. A former novelist and government Minister of Culture, Lee creates brilliantly unapologetic characters whose fraught, fascinating relationships reflect on both the nation's culture and larger life issues like faith, exploitation and love. His perspective is completely fresh and often alarming, the emotional depth and intelligence of his films sometimes unpleasant but always exhilarating.
Lee's most recent work, Secret Sunshine, about a young widow who moves to her husband's provincial hometown, won Jeon Do-Yeon the best actress prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival and is South Korea's candidate for the foreign language Academy Award.

Here's the schedule:

Thurs Jan 3 - 7:30 PEPPERMINT CANDY (1999)
Friday Jan 4 - 7:30 OASIS (2002)
Saturday Jan 5 - 5:00 GREEN FISH (1996)
Saturday Jan 5 - 7:30 SECRET SUNSHINE (2007)

Secret Sunshine screens with director Lee Chang-Dong, hosted by Quentin Tarantino.
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