Breath by Kim Ki Duk

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The filmography of the Korean Kim ki duk it is somewhat extensive, and in itself quite rich in metaphors, although mainly from the use of audiovisual resources.

With a very successful bet on «spring, summer, fall, winter, and again spring«, The director managed to overcome all kinds of borders, and enchant an audience not so accustomed to the codes and times of Korean cinema. Now, having to his credit films like «Iron 3","The arc" Y "Time«, Kim Ki Duk did not lower his arms and appeared again with his latest work, entitled«Breath«.

As often happens with his cinema, it takes time for all the cards to go down, and for the sense of the film to end up closing in on one. Then, "Breath" is no exception. A married couple with a small daughter, the husband cheats on her, and the woman, unhappy as she presents herself, is interested in an inmate of "the prison of death", which is where they keep the prisoners tried under penalty of death. One of them, after several suicide attempts, returns to the cell where he will have to wait for his sentence to be served. But she goes to visit him, and takes him, in each of her visits, each season of the year that he will not see. And they fall in love, because less could not happen. They fall in love with the fire that their past set in them. Since he was locked up for having killed his wife and daughters, and she brings with her the resentment of a marriage in destruction. But things always take a toll, and they take unexpected turns in the Kim Ki Duk cinema. And it is that only by watching the film will you be able to understand what I mean.

One of his many good films, which I consider below Iron 3, or of Spring Summer…, but it is still excellent in its forms. I recommend it, as well as all his filmography.


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