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A Brand New Life (DVD) (First Press Edition) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3

Kim Sae Ron (Actor) | Ounie Lecomte (Director) | Lee Chang Dong (Producer) | Moon Sung Keun
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A Brand New Life (DVD) (First Press Edition) (Korea Version)

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Produced by Lee Chang Dong, A Brand New Life is the heartbreaking debut of Korean-French writer-director Ounie Lecomte. Loosely based on the director's own life, the film is an unflinching look at life at an orphanage circa 1975 South Korea. Lecomte takes the audience on a journey through her own past that is at once tragic, comic, and touching. A Brand New Life has picked up multiple awards around the world, including the Best Asian Award at the 2009 Tokyo International Film Festival, and the Best Children's Feature Film Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

In a tour-de-force debut lead performance, the eight-year-old Kim Sae Ron plays Jin Hee, a young girl sent to the orphanage by her father (Sol Kyung Gu). After accepting the cruel reality of abandonment, she begins to establish relationships in the orphanage. However, attachment can only lead to pain for Jin Hee as she realizes that the orphanage cannot offer her the new life she needs; it can only be a transfer point to one.

First Press Edition comes with press event, photo gallery, and a trailer.

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Product Title: A Brand New Life (DVD) (First Press Edition) (Korea Version) A Brand New Life (DVD) (初回版) (韓國版) A Brand New Life (DVD) (初回版) (韩国版) 冬の小鳥 （初回版） （韓国版） 여행자 (DVD) (초회판) (한국판)
Also known as: 等愛我的人 等爱我的人 旅行者, 旅人
Artist Name(s): Kim Sae Ron (Actor) | Moon Sung Keun | Sol Kyung Gu | Ko Ah Sung (Actor) 金賽綸 (Actor) | 文盛瑾 | 薛景求 | 高雅星 (Actor) 金赛纶 (Actor) | 文盛瑾 | 薛景求 | 高雅星 (Actor) キム・セロン (Actor) | ムン・ソングン | ソル・ギョング | コ・アソン (Actor) 김새론 (Actor) | 문 성근 | 설 경구 | 고아성 (Actor)
Director: Ounie Lecomte 烏妮勒孔特 乌妮勒孔特 ウニー・ルコント 우니 르콩트
Producer: Lee Chang Dong 李滄東 李沧东 イ・チャンドン 이창동
Release Date: 2010-05-03
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English, Korean
Country of Origin: South Korea
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Publisher: Art Service
Other Information: 1-Disc
Package Weight: 100 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1022536622

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여행자 (DVD) (초회판) (한국판)

*Screen Format: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1, NTSC
*Sound Mix: Dolby Digital 5.1
*Extras:
- 김새롬 오디션 영상 : 05분 39초
- 스틸갤러리
- 티져 예고편 : 0분 32초
- 예고편 : 1분 44초

*Director: 우니 르콩트

줄거리 (Synopsis)

- <오아시스>, <밀양>의 이창동 감독 제작, 한불 합작 영화 “여행자”에서 공동 시나리오 집필
- 한국의 다코다 패닝 “김새론” 떠오르는 신예로 급부상, 극 중 슬픔을 억누른 건조한 연기로 호평
- 전세계가 조명한 영화 “여행자” 아시아 태평양 영화상 ,도쿄 영화제, 네덜란드 씨네키드 영화제, 美 팜스프링 영화제, 베를린 국제영화제, 인도 국제 영화제 러브콜 러쉬!

사랑을 알기도 전에 이별이 먼저 찾아왔습니다...

아 빠와의 행복한 데이트를 보낸 진희는 내일이면 아빠와 함께 여행을 떠날 생각에 가슴이 설렌다. 다음 날 아침, 아빠는 진희를 보육원에 맡긴 채 친구들과 사이 좋게 지내라는 말만 남기고 떠난다. 아빠가 자신을 버렸다는 사실을 믿을 수 없는 진희는 말도 안하고 밥도 먹지 않고 보육원을 벗어나려 저항도 해보지만 아무도 자신의 마음을 알아주는 사람도 없고, 갈 곳도 없음을 알게 된다. 그렇게 진희는 조금씩 아빠와의 이별을 준비하는데...

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섬세한 부드러움 속에 숨겨진 강단 있는 연출!
감독의 자전적 이야기를 바탕으로 한 탄탄한 구성

<여행자>는 우니 르콩트 감독이 아홉 살이었을 때, 한국에서 프랑스로 입양되기 전 가톨릭 수녀들이 운영하는 서울의 성 바오로 고아원에서 보낸 1975년에서 1976년까지 한 해 동안의 실제 경험을 바탕으로 만들어진 영화이다.

직접 시나리오를 쓰고 연출을 한 우니 르콩트 감독은 본인의 실제 경험을 토대로 <여행자>의 전반적인 구성을 세운 뒤, 극적 긴장감을 유도하는 장치나 구체적 상황을 살로 덧붙였다. 예를 들어 의사와 면담 시간에 그림을 그리는 것은 실제 감독의 경험에서 바탕이 되었지만, 도형 안에 색을 칠한다거나 자신이 보육원에 온 이유를 설명하는 구체적인 이야기들은 만들어진 픽션인 것이다. 이렇듯 기본 토대를 이루는 생생하고 탄탄한 틀 덕분에 영화는 더욱 섬세한 구성을 이끌어낼 수 있었다.

한편의 좋은 문학작품을 읽은 듯한 느낌과 여운을 주는 <여행자>는 이별 앞에 있는 아홉 살 소녀의 아픈 감정을 예민한 듯하면서도 부드럽고 강단 있어 보이는 ‘진희’라는 캐릭터를 통해 선명하게 보여준다. 아빠와 함께 할 때는 세상 누구보다 행복한 모습으로 웃을 수 있었지만, 아빠가 자신을 버렸다는 현실을 인정할 수 없었던 진희는 보육원 탈출을 시도해보기도 한다. 하지만 결국 진희가 돌아갈 곳은 자신이 버려진 곳인 보육원 밖에 없다. 절망적인 상황을 깨달을 때마다 진희는 선물로 온 인형을 갈기갈기 찢기도 하고, 급기야 자신이 철저히 버려졌음에 대한 사형선고라도 하듯 땅에 스스로를 파 묻기도 하는 등 무례하고 거친 행동들을 통해 절망과 분노의 감정을 여과 없이 드러낸다.

감독의 섬세한 스토리 구성은 진희를 비롯한 각 캐릭터에서 가장 잘 드러난다. 몸이 불편해 입양되지 못하고 성숙한 나이가 되도록 보육원에 남겨진 아이, 좋은 곳에 입양되기 위해 다른 아이들보다 더 적극적으로 노력하는 아이, 부모가 자신을 데리러 올 거라 굳게 믿으며 아무데도 가지 않으려 하는 아이, 그리고 보육원에서 엄마처럼 아이들을 돌보는 보모 등 생동감이 넘치는 캐릭터는 감독이 보육원에 있던 짧은 시절 동안 만났던 사람들에 대한 기억 속 파편들로 더욱 구체적으로 체계화 되었다. 그리고 캐릭터마다 각각의 색깔 있는 사연들을 입히며 더욱 풍성한 이야기와 감정들을 만들어 냈다.

<여행자>는 아이마다 지닌 각기 다른 형태의 이별과 슬픔, 그리고 사랑의 결을 통해 ‘각자가 안고 있는 상처를 어떻게 극복할 것이냐?’가 아닌 “슬픔 앞에서 어떻게 생을 계속 살아낼 것인가?”라는 질문에 대한 답을 찾아가는 과정에 대한 이야기이다.
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May 4, 2010
Stuck in the Middle
From the first frame of Ounie Lecomte's A Brand New Life, one can see producer Lee Chang Dong's influence all over the screen. In her semi-autobiographical film, the writer-director carries the same sort of unflinching realism that Lee brings to his own brand of Cinéma vérité style films. There's no room for that syrupy stuff known as emotions in neither Lee's nor Lecomte's films - this is life as it happens. Emotion is something that is read between the lines, not fed to the audience. The result is a powerful piece of work that deserves attention, regardless of what you end up feeling about what you see.

In addition to Lee's influence, Lecomte should also pass plenty of thanks to her casting department for discovering Kim Sae Ron, who delivers a powerful performance in her first role as a lead actress. At only eight years old, Kim is in nearly every shot of the film as the abandoned child forced to accept the reality of her situation, and she manages to carry the film effectively. She was deservedly nominated for Best Newcomer at the 4th Asian Film Awards (though she didn't win), and her work should guarantee a prosperous career in the years ahead.

Lecomte's story is only one of many involving the adoption of South Korean children in the 1970s, and the writer-director wisely doesn't try to make her story represent all of her contemporaries. Instead, she simply sticks to the personal journey of Jin Hee (Kim Sae Ron), who is seen in the film's opening scenes out on the town with her father (Sol Kyung Gu). Without any real explanation (though Jin Hee later theorizes one), he drops her off at an orphanage the next day and doesn't return. While Jin Hee and her denial of her abandonment remains the center of the story, the film also looks at the lives of other people in the Catholic orphanage, such as a girl keen to be adopted by an American family who becomes Jin Hee's best friend, and a young woman who would rather stay in the orphanage for the rest of her life.

With a Catholic orphanage as its setting, there is no objectionable content in A Brand New Life, but it can still be an emotionally grueling film at times. As the audience watches Jin Hee deny the reality of her abandonment and witness the departures of all her friends, even having the knowledge of what eventually happens to her (as revealed by the director's French name) doesn't soften the film's emotional impact.

It's not a film that explicitly expresses what you should think about adoption or the plights of the characters on screen, but you're bound to feel something after A Brand New Life. For some, it'll be a sad story of a girl abandoned by her family and cast out of her home; for others, it's an optimistic story of how a young girl discovers the better life she deserves. Fortunately, Lecomte leaves our own impressions up to us.
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 Sae-ron is an incredible child actress Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
Set in 1975 this simple story of Jin-hee (Sae-ron Park) a little girl sent to a convent orphanage by her father, in the hope she’ll be adopted by loving parents, is a gem. Jin-hee as no idea her dad was to leave her, thinking her new shoes and clothes were for a new school trip, but it’s the last time she would ever see her father again. When the orphanage director informs Jin-hee the stark truth, she refuse to believe him, convinced her father will return. But as reality bites, Jin-hee closes up into herself becoming stubborn to the nuns and other children and even trying to escape. However Jin-hee finds solace in Sook-hee (Do-yeon Park) a slightly older orphaned girl who takes sympathy in Jin-hee’s predicament. After Jin-hee had thrown her food on the floor at mealtime and worrying the nuns, Sook-hee cleans it up scolding Jin-hee. But eventually the two girls become firm friends, vowing to stay together and hoping a visiting couple will adopt them both. Another teenaged orphan is Yeshin (A-sung Park) who looks after Jin-hee, Sook-hee and the children by giving them hope in reading fortune cards. Yeshin also falls in love with a local boy who visits the orphanage. Yeshin was orphaned due to her clubfoot defect and finds her handicap causing continual rejection.

Little actress Saeron Park is brilliant to watch; having such empathy with her character she’ll leave you thinking about Jin-hee long after the film as finished. Saeron’s a brilliant little actress. The pain she shows when realising her dad had really left her and her monologue of telling the orphanage doctor why she thought her father sent her to the orphanage, is incredible acting for Saeron’s age! Saeron also smiles beautifully (when she does of course, Jin-hee, understandably, isn’t a happy bunny). A solid and super support cast, too. A-sung Park as the heartbroken Yeshin, who attempts to take her own life by a boy’s rejection letter to her love advances, is superb (laughter wins though evetually). Do-yeon Park as Sook-hee performs well as the friend in need. This is so beautifully acted with honesty and not over sentimentalising. Although rejection caused these children to be stuck in an orphanage, love exists to counter that rejection. Luckily, fortunately or God given, certain hearts decide on adoptive mercy. A simple, sensitive, eye moistening film to endear. Jin-hee’s anticipating eyes at the finish are unforgettable! Lovely piano music theme, too. Very recommended!
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