✔️ 2022-12-03 21:02:09 – Paris/France.
Award-winning South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, best known for the acclaimed film 'Parasites', will be the subject of an upcoming Netflix-produced documentary slated for release next year.
Titled “Yellow Door: Looking for Director Bong's Unreleased Short Film,” the documentary will be directed by fellow Korean Lee Hyuk-rae and will chronicle the search for Bong Joon Ho's first short film, which was never released.
The never-before-seen short, 'Looking for Paradise' was made during the college years of the multi-award-winning filmmaker, who with 'Parasites' won four Oscars, including Best Picture, International Feature, Director and Original Screenplay , the Palme d'Or at Cannes and at the Bafta Awards, for the film in a language other than English and for the screenplay, in addition to the Golden Globe for best foreign film, mentions never before obtained by a South Korean production.
As well as shedding light on the acclaimed artist's creative origins, the documentary will chronicle a time when enthusiastic young moviegoers emerged in South Korea, the so-called "Korean Wave" race.
"Although many believe that Bong's debut film is the 1994 short 'White Man', his true debut is actually 'Looking for Paradise', a 22-minute film that was only screened for ten members of the club. Yellow Door moviegoers at Christmas 1992 and haven't been seen since,” Netflix said in a statement.
The company added that its upcoming documentary gets to the bottom of that mysterious, never-before-seen short that Bong debuted with, with testimonials from the few viewers who attended the screening in 1992 and also looks back at the early years of the filmmaker and the club. of cinephiles who welcomed him. (Telam)
SOURCE: Reviews News
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