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The Korean Wedding Chest
Ulrike Ottinger’s provocative mélange of ethnography, stunning tableaux and baroque vignettes was inspired by what she calls the “well-stocked miracle” of Korean wedding chests, assembled according to time-honored customs. This exploration of love and marriage in South Korea looks closely at ancient and present-day rituals, revealing what is old in the new and new in the old. Her inquiry leads us from shamans, temples and priests, to the enchanted maze of 21st-century Seoul, where vendors of medicinal herbs co-exist with high-tech beauty salons for wedding couples and secular marriage palaces. Using film much like a canvas, Ottinger creates a modern fairytale flush with mythological heroes, traditional rites, ancestral symbolism, dreams of eternal love, and a whole lot of Western kitsch. One of her most acclaimed documentaries, it captures the amazing phenomenon of new mega-cities and their contradictory societies caught in a balancing act.
| Release : | 2009 |
| Rating : | 7.1 |
| Studio : | |
| Crew : | Cinematography, Director, |
| Cast : | Ulrike Ottinger |
| Genre : | Documentary |
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Truly Dreadful Film
An action-packed slog
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
