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The film ‘MINARI’, which depicts the warm and lively struggles of Korean immigrant families in the 1980s to settle in the United States, won the Foreign Language Film Awards at the 78th Golden Globe Awards on April 28. last month (local time). Based on his autobiographical experience, directed by Isak Chung (Lee Isaac, 43), the second generation of Korean Americans, this film was evaluated as “a universal and surprising story of immigrants” (Washington Post).
Golden Globe Foreign Language Film Awards ‘Buttercup’
“Migrant families who speak their own language
A language of sincerity and love, not a foreign language “
‘Parasite’ followed by a splendid feat, a glitter theme
No racism controversy
The awards ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California and the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center in New York City, that day, minimized attendance due to Corona 19. After receiving news of the award through From a video, director Jung called out the names of the cast and staff one by one and said, “Thank you to the entire Minari family.” She smiled as she hugged her daughter at home and said, “This is the big reason my daughter made this movie. Minari is a family story. It is the story of a family trying to speak in their own language, and it is not just the American language or any other foreign language, it is the language of the heart. ”“ We all tell ourselves this’ language of love. say ‘Love)’. Especially this year, ”he said.
75 crowns including sundance, 26 crowns for Yoon Yeo-jeong
On the 28th of last month (local time), director Jeong Isaac, who won the Foreign Language Film Award for ‘Minari’ at the non-face Golden Globes, holds his daughter and expresses his feelings. [AFP=연합뉴스]
Director Jung’s fourth feature film, ‘Minari’, is a journey of hope, frustration, and will for a 30-year-old couple and children (sisters) who moved to Arkansas in the 1980s, and a grandmother who came from Korea to help them. After its first release at the Sundance Film Festival last year, it received a total of 75 Golden Globe crowns (nominated in 157 categories). Most notably, Yoon Yeo-jeong, who plays the role of his grandmother. maternal Sunja, received care and received a total of 26 crowns at various film festivals and award shows. ‘Minari’ was classified as a foreign language film award rather than a Golden Globe job award organized by the Hollywood Foreign Journalists Association because the main ambassador was Korean rather than English, and racial profiling was controversial.
The New York Times (NYT) added the headline ‘Director who returned to his hometown where he wanted to go’ in an interview with Director Jung on the 26th of last month. Here, hometown refers to both the state of Arkansas in the United States, where Jung grew up, and Korea, which are his roots.
It is a coincidence that Jung became a film director. He entered Yale University as a writer, but his dream soon ended. He told the NYT: “I was wondering if Yale had just signed me up, from Arkansas, to cover the local fee. The other students are so good, but my skills were terrible, ”he recalled. He said he wasn’t the type to enjoy movies. “When my roommate in the bedroom saw a movie called ‘Seven Samurai,’ I thought, ‘Why do you like that movie?'” He told NYT.
He decided to go to medical school and enrolled in film classes to complete the required credits in humanities. While filming experimental videos as a weekly assignment, he gradually became interested in video production and soon fell into the works of director Kurosawa Akira, director of “ Seven Samurai ” and director Wang Jawei, of “ Hwayang Yeonhwa ” and “ Chongqing Forest ”. He told NYT: “It was like a life conversion for me to put myself on the road to cinema.
He went on to the University of Utah instead of medical school and majored in film. He said, “I keep watching several movies a day” and “It was like a monk training in movies.” After graduation, his first feature film was shot in 2007 with his wife Valerie, a psychotherapist, visiting Rwanda, Africa. The name was announced at the Cannes Film Festival as ‘Munurangabo’, which represents ethnic reconciliation in the local language of Rwanda.
‘Buttercup’ Golden Globe Foreign Language Film Awards Graphic = Reporter Kim Joo-won [email protected]
Later, he taught at his alma mater, the University of Utah, in Incheon, Korea. Director Jung told the NYT, “When I turned 40, I decided to make a difference in my life and thought about doing something more practical.” Actor Yoon Yeo-jeong also met while living in Incheon. Actor Yoon Yeo-jung told NYT, “Director Jung was like my son.” “The first day of shooting all the movies is going to be a disaster, but I remember Jung was very calm.”
Korean films have won the Foreign Language Film Awards for the second year in a row at the Golden Globe, called the Academy Preliminary Exhibition. Last year, director Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’ was nominated for three Golden Globes, then won foreign language film awards and won four awards, including Best Works, at the Academy Awards. Since last year, the Academy changed the name of the Foreign Language Film Awards to award it as the International Film Award, and the use of a foreign language does not affect the criteria for awards in the main categories. The announcement of the candidates to the academy will be announced on the 15th and the awards ceremony will be on the 25th of next month.
According to the US media deadline, ‘Minari’, which has passed the third week of its North American release, is expanding its theaters in response to requests for additional screenings and cumulative sales of $ 251,000 (about 282 million won). . In Korea, it will be released on the 3rd.
Chinese Director Chloe Zhaoga Best Picture
The Golden Globe for Best Picture and Director’s Award went to ‘Nomadland’ by Chinese-American director Chloe Zhao. It is a parade awarded with 170 crowns, including the Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival last year. Zhao is the first Asian woman to win the Golden Globe for Best Play and Director. Pixar animation’Soul ‘won the Music Award and the Feature Animation Award. Chadwick Bozeman, a black actor who died after battling colon cancer last year, received the Best Actor award (drama category) for ‘Ma Rainese Black Bottom’.
Reporters Kang Hye-ran, Jeon Su-jin, Na Won-jung [email protected]
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