Dance Town
South Korea
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2010
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Color
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95 min
This directory compiles the glossaries from all editions of Cines del Sur: eleven already held and the twelfth currently underway. It serves as a living memory of the festival, its films, guests, sections, and spaces for reflection on the cinemas of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world. Here you can trace the evolution of its programming, rediscover filmmakers, and follow the thematic threads that have defined Cines del Sur's identity as a meeting point for cultures, perspectives, and ways of understanding cinema from the Global South.
A former North Korean professional table tennis player, Ri Jeong-Rim, flees to South Korea after her husband's arrest. The government, which has agents spying on her, provides her with housing and assigns her a bodyguard, Kim Song-heui, who is in charge of the area's "new residents." Ri begins to feel lonely and alienated, leading her to seek out blind dates that go nowhere. Nevertheless, she still hopes her husband might return to her one day. Her new job at a laundry leads her to befriend Oh, a local policeman struggling to make ends meet, who invites her out. Ri's experiences intertwine with the lives of Kim, who is in debt and lives with her mother – a devout Christian to the point of fanaticism –; Ji-na, a pregnant schoolgirl; and Lee Jun-hyeok, a lonely disabled man for whom Ri cooks kimchi. With Dance Town, Jeon Kyu-hwan completes his internationally acclaimed "city trilogy."
Technical Details
Direction:
Jeon Kyu-hwan
Cinematography:
Choi Yeongseon
Music:
Choi In-yang
Language:
Korean
Production:
Choi Mi-ae
Sound:
Lee Shi-hun
Subtitles:
English and Spanish
Screenplay:
Jeon Kyu-hwan
Editing:
Han Jong-hun
Cast:
Ra Mi-ran (Ri Jeong-rim), Ju Yu-rang (Kim Song-heui), Oh Seong-tae (Oh, the policeman), Lee Jun-hyeok (Lee Jun-hyeok), Noh Seul-gi (Ji-na), Lee Yong-ju (Jeong Man-il), Seong Jeong-seon (mother-in-law), Jang Yeong-ju (Song-heui’s mother)
Director
Jeon Kyu-hwan
Born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1965. His cinematic debut took place in 2008 with the film Mozart Town, which initiated his "city trilogy" and where the filmmaker began to explore urban solitude. This was followed a year later by Animal Town, screened at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. After presenting the final chapter of his triptych, Dance Town, at numerous festivals such as Busan and Berlin, Kyu-hwan is currently preparing his fourth feature film: The Weight.
