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Jeong Jae Jin (Actor) | Ha Hee Kyeong (Actor) | Choi Wee An (Director)
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Today and the Other Days (DVD) (Korea Version)

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Written, produced, and directed by Choi Wee An, the 2008 indie film Today and the other Days is set in a gloomy outskirts town in the midst of government redevelopment. There live a young single woman named Jacqueline (Ha Hee Kyeong) and her father (Jeong Jae Jin), who is suffering from dementia. Every night they play hwatoo together. Everyday passes like yesterday. How much longer can Jacqueline continue like this? Dementia and disorders abound in Today and the Other Days to illustrate the claustrophobic world of a woman stifled by her circumstances. Today and the Other Days was screened at the 13th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival.
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Product Title: Today and the Other Days (DVD) (Korea Version) Today and the Other Days (DVD) (韓國版) Today and the Other Days (DVD) (韩国版) 夜のゲーム （韓国版） 저녁의 게임 (DVD) (한국판)
Artist Name(s): Jeong Jae Jin (Actor) | Ha Hee Kyeong (Actor) 丁在鎮 (Actor) | Ha Hee Kyeong (Actor) 丁在镇 (Actor) | Ha Hee Kyeong (Actor) Jeong Jae Jin (Actor) | Ha Hee Kyeong (Actor) 정재진 (Actor) | 하희경 (Actor)
Director: Choi Wee An Choi Wee An Choi Wee An Choi Wee An 최위안
Release Date: 2010-02-12
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English, Korean
Country of Origin: South Korea
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: All Region What is it?
Rating: III
Publisher: Widemedia Korea
Package Weight: 150 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1022066569

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저녁의 게임 (DVD) (한국판)

* Screen format: 16 : 9 Anamorphic Widescreen, NTSC
* Sound mix: DOLBY DIGITAL 2.0

* Director: 최위안

■ 초청상영 및 수상내역
2009 유바리국제판타스틱영화제 특별상
2009 바로셀로니아 아시아영화제 경쟁부문,,
2009 세계4대영화제인 “모스크바 국제영화제” 메인 경쟁부문,,
2009 브라질리아 국제영화제 초청

■ Introduction
파격을 품격으로 바꾼 영화!!
KBS 9시 뉴스에 소개된 <저녁의 게임>!
단관 개봉 후, 관객들의 지지 속에 상영관을 넓혀가며 화제를 일으키고 있는 <저녁의 게임>의 소식이 KBS 뉴스 9를 통해 소개되었다. 일반적인 상업영화에서는 다루기 어려운 파격적인 이야기를 그리면서 작품성을 인정받은 저예산 영화들에 관한 뉴스에서 <저녁의 게임>의 특별한 흥행소식이 의미 있게 다뤄졌다.

■ Special review

총괄프로듀서 박철수 감독이 말하는 <저녁의 게임>
최위안 감독은 영화 <저녁의 게임>을 통해 두 배우 (하희경과 정재진)의 악마적 표정과 몸놀림을 섬찟할 만큼 세련되게 끄집어내 보는 이로 하여금 살아 있는 육체와 지친 영혼 사이를 오가며 화면에 빠져들게 한다. 그의 섬세하면서도 아슬아슬한 탐미적 영상 언어는 시종 일관 긴장감을 놓지 않는다.

영화평론가 김영진의 2009년 부천국제판타스틱영화제
<저녁의 게임>추천의 글
<저녁의 게임>은 이상하게도 초반부터 오정희 소설의 분위기가 난다. 나중에 크레딧에 나오는대로, 오정희의 단편소설 ‘저녁의 게임’에서 영감을 받은 것이기 때문이다. 원작으로부터 영감을 받았다고 쓴 것은 눅눅하면서도 서늘한 소설의 분위기를 가져온 것은 맞지만 소설과는 전혀 다른 세계를 창조하고 있기 때문이다.

일례로 소설과 달리 영화 속 여주인공 성재는 말을 하지 못한다. 늘 궁시렁대는 아버지와 함께 살며 이웃 꼬마가 기웃거리는 재개발예정 지역의 오래된 집에 사는 성재의 일상은 겉으로는 평온하지만 금방이라도 폭발할 재앙의 기운에 감염돼 있다. 자전거를 한가롭게 타고 가다가 트럭운전사에게 뺨을 맞는 첫 장면부터 이 영화는 폭력의 불길한 조짐에 휩싸인다. 칼국수를 만들면서 성재가 손에 쥔 칼은 일상 속의 평범한 사물일 수도 있겠지만 이 영화에서는 좀 다른 느낌을 준다.

영화의 후반부에 이르러 서서히 우리를 옥죄는 그 불길한 기운의 정체가 감지된다. 그때까지 별다른 의미 있는 대화가 오가지 않는 여주인공 주변의 일상을 파고드는 연출이 뛰어나다. 현실과 환상을 오가는 구성도 물방울이 옷깃을 적시듯 적지 않은 감정의 파장을 일으킨다. 삶의 감옥이라는 명제를 관능에로의 갈구로 풀려는 해석은 논쟁의 여지가 있으나 여하튼 우리는 여주인공 성재의 마음에 거의 들어간 듯한, 그럼으로써 외면할 수 없는 아픔을 느낀다. 목가적 풍경이 악몽으로 변해 가는데도 절대적 미감을 잃지 않는 이 영화의 독특한 정취는 근대 한국영화에선 볼 수 없었던 것이다
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 Jacqueline ‘Says’ Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
As Jacqueline (Hee-kyeong Ha) rides her bike to her rustic childhood home amidst a redevelopment zone she’s almost hit by an overtaking lorry. She doesn’t hear it, but after falling from her bike the lorry driver stops and gets out of his vehicle to slap Jacqueline about the head. She cowers, hard memories manifesting by the sudden violence. Jacqueline is deaf and mute, a derivative psychological trauma due to her father (Jae-jin Jeong) beating her and her mother over past ‘flirtatious’ encounters. As Jacqueline reaches her home she then begins her daily caring duties in feeding, dressing and bathing her dementia-suffering father. Jacqueline is obedient to his needs, but remains indifferent due to her traumatic childhood, remembering her mother being institutionalised due to her father’s violent temper, with Jacqueline also ending up mute and deaf. Although mellowed by age, Jacqueline’s father is easily irritated, like stealing a young local boys telescope due to the lad spying on him. Although indifferent Jacqueline cares for her father’s dementia condition and plays cards (hwatoo) each night after bathing him. But Jacqueline struggles with repressed sexual emotions, psychologically fantasizing to release her sexual tension, like when she rests in mud water and elatedly OBEs herself into spiritual and sexual freedom. Even daydreaming fairy-tale type fantasies of her mother and father normally together again and sometimes ‘seeing’ angels appear that wish to take them to heaven.

Based on a Korean novel, “Today and the Other Days” portraits a cruel life of a woman’s repetitive caring for a sick father who’d beat her as a child, manifesting abnormalities and sexual repression by the austerity, paranoia and domestic violence. The sexual ‘releases’ are quite explicit, so certainly an adult film. Also dark humoured. Like when the father and the boy look through a photo album to identify someone resembling an escaped convict (who’d accosted Jacqueline and stole her father’s clothing as they hung to dry) with the boy pointing to one of the grumpy old man’s younger photos as a resemblance to the convict! Acting is superb and Hee-kyeong Ha is fantastic, especially when Jacqueline breaks down emotionally and uses her sign language to vent anger to her father for his foolish misconduct that had left her mute and deaf and her mother mad – incredible! A brilliant adult tale of sexual frustration in womanhood and the repercussions of negative anger.
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