Park Chan-wook

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Park Chan-wook at Comic-Con 2009
Park Chan-wook at Comic-Con 2009

Korean spelling
Hangeul 박찬욱
Hanja 朴 贊 郁
Revised
Romanization 		Bak Chan-uk
McCune-
Reischauer 		Pak Ch'anuk

Park Chan-wook (born August 23, 1963 in Seoul , South Korea ) is a South Korean film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Park Chan-wook grew up in Seoul and studied philosophy at Sogang University , where he founded a film club, the Sogang Film Community, and published several articles on contemporary cinema. His original plan to become a film critic, he gave up when he Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock saw and then decided to make films themselves.

Park's first film The Moon is… The Sun's Dream from 1992 and his second feature film Trio , which he directed five years later, were both commercial failures. It was not until 2000 that he made his breakthrough with Joint Security Area . The film drew six million viewers in South Korea, setting a new record previously held by Shiri . In the following year, however, he was replaced by Friend . Joint Security Area deals with a sensitive issue in South Korea, the division of the country.

In Europe and America, however, Park remained an insider tip until his film Oldboy (2003). The revenge drama Oldboy , extremely brutal by Western standards , was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival . It is also the second part of a trilogy of revenge that began with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002). The third part, Lady Vengeance , followed in 2005. Four years later, Park received an invitation to compete at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival for the vampire story Durst and won the jury prize ex aequo with Andrea Arnold for her film Fish Tank .

In an interview in 2004, Park named Sophocles , Shakespeare , Kafka , Dostojewski , Balzac and Kurt Vonnegut as influences on his career.

His cinematic role models are Robert Aldrich , Ingmar Bergman , Sam Fuller , Roman Polanski , Kim Ki-young and Alfred Hitchcock. The film The Housemaid (1960) by Kim Ki-young influenced him “more than anything else”.

Quentin Tarantino is an avowed fan of the filmmaker. In 2004, as president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, he tried to convince the same to award the Golden Palm to Oldboy . However, he did not succeed, the award went to Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore . Oldboy received the Grand Jury Prize .

In 2011, Park shot the film Night Fishing with his brother Chan-kyong ( Paranmanjang ; night fishing ). This is said to be the first movie that was shot entirely with the iPhone 4 . The film, on which 80 employees worked, was shot within ten days and the production cost 102,000 euros. At the 2011 Berlinale , the film received the Golden Bear for best short film. In 2013 Park directed the music video "V" for singer Lee Jung-hyun , who starred in Night Fishing . In April 2012, Park announced that he would be directing the US remake of the French crime drama The Ax of Costa-Gavras .

In 2016 he received his third invitation to the competition at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival for The Pickpocket (original title: Agassi , English festival title: The Handmaiden ) . Set in Korea in the 1930s , the film is an “elegant game of confusion and conundrum” and at the same time a thriller that the critics very much lifted out of the mainstream.

Just like his fellow director Bong Joon-ho , Park Chan-wook is a member of the Minju-nodong Party ( 민주 노동당 , Democratic Labor Party), a small social democratic party in South Korea. In 2002, he even made an appearance in the party's presidential campaign on television.

In 2017 he was appointed to the competition jury of the 70th Cannes Film Festival .

In 2018 he directed the 6-part miniseries The Little Drummer Girl based on the novel Die Libelle by John le Carré . The leading roles are played by Florence Pugh , Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Shannon . The series was commissioned by the American TV channel AMC and the British BBC , which together with the production company The Ink Factory previously The Night Manager , the film version of le Carré's The night manager , had realized. The first trailer was released on October 8, 2018. The premiere took place on October 14, 2018 at the London Film Festival . The BBC started broadcasting the series on October 28, 2018.

Filmography

Director

author

producer

Awards

2001
2002
  • Blue Ribbon Awards , Japan
    • Blue Ribbon Award for the best foreign language film, for the Joint Security Area
2003
2004
2005
2006
  • Fantasporto , Portugal
    • Orient Express Section Grand Prize for Best Picture, for Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
2007
2008
2009

occupation

A special feature of his films is that he regularly works with the same actors. These include:

Furthermore, the films of Park Chan-Wook and those of his colleague and close friend Kim Jee-woon often share the actors:

Web links

Commons : Park Chan-wook  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Hollywood Reporter: Dialogue: Park Chan-wook ( Memento October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), May 14, 2004
  2. ^ Winner of the 62nd Festival de Cannes 2009. Accessed on May 6, 2019 (French).
  3. ↑ Patrick Heidmann: Interview with Park Chan-wook about his film "The Pickpocket". "French comedies are seldom funny to a Korean audience." In: epd film . January 15, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Park Chan-wook is making the world's first film on Iphone. (No longer available online.) In: Korean Tourism Organization. Chosun Ilbo , January 21, 2011, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on May 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Park Chan-wook makes his first movie with an iPhone. In: Stern. February 4, 2011, archived from the original on February 7, 2011 ; accessed on October 13, 2016 (video report).
  6. ↑ Cannes award winner brings iPhone film to cinemas. In: Krone.at. January 11, 2011; Archived from the original on January 19, 2011 ; Retrieved February 6, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Park Min-young: 'Night Fishing' brings home Golden Bear. Park brothers' iPhone-shot short film wins award at Berlinale. In: Korea Herald . February 20, 2011, accessed February 20, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Park Chan-wook Given The Ax. In: Dread Central. April 20, 2010, accessed April 20, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Patrick Wellinski: New in the cinema: "Die Taschendiebin" - Nothing is as it seems , review in Deutschlandradio Kultur on January 4, 2017, accessed January 8, 2017
  10. ↑ BBC: The Little Drummer Girl | FIRST LOOK - BBC. October 8, 2018, accessed October 9, 2018 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Park is the family name here, Chan-wook is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Park, Chan-wook
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 박찬욱 (Korean, Hangeul); 朴 贊 郁 (Korean, Hanja); Bak, Chan-uk (Revised Romanization); Pak, Ch'anuk (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean film director
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul , South Korea