Thursday, May 10, 2012

Passerby #3 / Rainbow / <레인보우> 2010

Directed by: Shin Su-won / 신수원
Release date: November 2010

The gift of a digital movie camera inspired Kim Ji-wan to quit her high-school teaching job and aim at directing films. She scores an internship in a production company but things do not run smoothly in this production-line atmosphere. The committee in charge continually finds fault with all of her ideas and each of her screenplays—first they tell her her ideas are not commercial enough, then they advise her to find her own "true colors". Meanwhile at home her son Si-yeong is becoming a rebellious adolescent and her long-suffering husband Sang-woo is tired of her dead-end aspirations.

This film is a joyful riff on the creative impulse. The humor is whimsical, the characters engaging, and the storyline upbeat but never sappy. 
My take: 5 stars!
A species of duet: son (Baek So-myeong) on the guitar,
mom (Park Hyun-young) on the keyboard.

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