Hwal - The bow
| Movie | |
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| German title | Hwal - The bow |
| Original title | 활 Hwal |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language | Korean |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Kim Ki-duk |
| script | Kim Ki-duk |
| production | Kang Yong-gyu , Kim Ki-duk , Michiko Suzuki |
| music | Kang Eun-il |
| camera | Jang Seong-back |
| cut | Kim Ki-duk |
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Hwal - The Arch (original title 활 , Revised Romanization : Hwal ) is a feature film by the South Korean director Kim Ki-duk from 2005 , actors are Han Yeo-reum , Jeon Seong-hwan and Seo Si-jeok . It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 .
action
An old man and a 16 year old girl live on a boat in the middle of the sea. The girl has lived with the man on board for 10 years. The old man has planned to marry the girl for her 17th birthday. Until then, he regularly brings fishermen on board to finance his living. One day there is a young man among them who falls in love with the girl and thereby endangers the old man's plans. When the old man realizes the danger, he expels the young man from the ship. However, he comes back and asks for the girl's release. At first it seems as if the old man is about to let her go, but when the boat with the two young people leaves, he attempts suicide. The girl notices this, returns and marries the old man. After the wedding, the old man shoots the bow of his violin like an arrow in the sky, jumps into the water and gives himself up to death there. The girl is drifting back to the young man in the boat. In the end, the two young people sail towards the mainland.
The eponymous bow serves the man both as an instrument with which he creates tender melodies and as a deterrent weapon and as an accessory for an obscure divination ritual.
Interesting
- The entire location of Der Bogen consisted only of the sea and an old fishing boat.
- Filming began on January 2, 2005 under extremely poor weather conditions. The film crew experienced 17 days of filming at sea in the bitter cold, with no decent food or a proper toilet. Over 50 crew members had to squeeze into the narrow boat with all their equipment and props.
- Kim Ki-duk really wanted to use the bow as a musical instrument. However, it was impossible to elicit notes from him. So he decided to use a special violin for the music recordings. When he happened to hear the violinist (Haegum) Kang Eun-il play, he had the feeling that her music had been written especially for Der Bogen . Kang Eun-il's compositions “Fade Out” and “Soaring” were then incorporated into the film.
criticism
“From disgust to admiration, there have been a wide range of reactions to Kim's films, which vary greatly in their radicalism. The bow, on the other hand, should meet with indifference. "
“No doubt, the arch is brittle and oppressive. The narrowness of the scene prevents Kim from making the usual comic digressions and twists. And yet his narrative ingenuity shows again, especially the actors can convince. Han Yeo-reum as a girl is gorgeous, almost over-fulfilling the cliché of the Far Eastern nanny. Jeon Sung-hwan as an old man - stoic, virile and yet elegant. He is the dramatic center of the film. "
"In beautiful images and with a spiritual gesture, the drama philosophizes about the dialectics of refuge and prison, tenderness and sadism, love and violence."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Hwal - Der Bogen . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 876 K).
- ^ Frédéric Jaeger: Hwal - Der Bogen , critic.de, July 20, 2006
- ↑ Andreas Kock: Mythspiele in the nutshell , kino-zeit.de, July 27, 2006
- ↑ Hwal - The bow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 22, 2017 .
Web links
- Hwal - The bow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the rental company