I didn't like this movie, but I didn't hate it either. It was interesting and entertaining in a twisted way. I would be very thoughtful about who I recommended it to.
I wanted to like this. I really did... but was ultimately let down in the end. The story was just too messy for…
I'm on board with you. I dropped it awhile back but picked it up for a requirement on the 2020 Challenge. Longest 2 1/2 hours of my drama life. I feel like I lost brain cells on this movie today. The worst thing about it for me was not that it was weird or violent, but that it bored me.
I enjoyed it. It wasn’t great but it was entertaining and heart warming. :) I love ski jumping as terrifying as it is and this movie had some good ski shots.
They never explained why Junichi behaved the way he did. Homeless, never looking for anything. And apparently helpless against a woman’s desire. “I just wanted a cup of tea.” :D
Also, that boy must have been putting out some potent pheromones. Women were helpless in his presence no matter their age.
Mont-Saint-Michel is on my bucket list of places to go. My best friend spent two nights there and loved it, especially after the tourists left for the day. Lucky woman. For now I lived vicariously through this travel drama. Wonderful shots of various places in France to visit.
Oh, and there was also the drama part. The only caveat I have is that it needed a short epilogue for me. The ending was left a few things dangling, other than that I really enjoyed this drama. The characters evolved as well as their relationships. This drama was right up my alley. I would have no regrets recommending it. :)
The story was convoluted and there was gratuitous violence galore. The best parts of the movie were the well choreographed fight scenes. And it was nice that quite a bit of English was spoken for my tired brain late at night. :)
Bruce Lee was beautiful and lightning fast as always. The story never really matters to me. I like to watch him for his moves even though I know that some of the kicks were not his style. He was always entertaining.
This is all I could find on the writer, whose life this is loosely based upon. It would make an interesting second movie to see her life in Paris with her new parents and also to see how her meeting went with the father that abandoned her.
Biography Born in Seoul in 1966, Ounie LECOMTE left Korea for France at the age of 9 when a Protestant family adopted her. Her adoptive father was a minister. After studying dress design, she worked on a number of films: as an actress with Olivier ASSAYAS ("Paris s’éveille") or as a wardrobe mistress, notably for Sophie Fillières. In 1991, she returned to Korea to play the part of an abandoned girl looking for her roots there. The film was never made, but reality caught up with fiction and she was re- united with her biological family. In 2006, she enrolled at the Fémis Screenwriting Workshop run by Eve Deboise where she wrote "A Brand New Life".
Kim Sae Ron did an amazing job as a child abandoned by her chicken shirt father that had no more room for her in his life now that he had a new wife and baby. Instead of giving her finality in the abandonment, the way he did it kept her hope alive that he would return for her.
I do not understand the complexity of Korean adoption. All the adoptive parents were foreigners except for the Korean couple that wanted one of the children primarily to be a maid.
It was a difficult movie to watch as I find children who are hurting a hard burden to bear, but their burden was more difficult. There is hope running throughout this movie and the orphanage clergy and personnel are not brutal as in other movies. Their goal is for the children to be adopted and have brand new and better lives.
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Also, that boy must have been putting out some potent pheromones. Women were helpless in his presence no matter their age.
Oh, and there was also the drama part. The only caveat I have is that it needed a short epilogue for me. The ending was left a few things dangling, other than that I really enjoyed this drama. The characters evolved as well as their relationships. This drama was right up my alley. I would have no regrets recommending it. :)
Biography
Born in Seoul in 1966, Ounie LECOMTE left Korea for France at the age of 9 when a Protestant family adopted her. Her adoptive father was a minister. After studying dress design, she worked on a number of films: as an actress with Olivier ASSAYAS ("Paris s’éveille") or as a wardrobe mistress, notably for Sophie Fillières. In 1991, she returned to Korea to play the part of an abandoned girl looking for her roots there. The film was never made, but reality caught up with fiction and she was re- united with her biological family. In 2006, she enrolled at the Fémis Screenwriting Workshop run by Eve Deboise where she wrote "A Brand New Life".
I do not understand the complexity of Korean adoption. All the adoptive parents were foreigners except for the Korean couple that wanted one of the children primarily to be a maid.
It was a difficult movie to watch as I find children who are hurting a hard burden to bear, but their burden was more difficult. There is hope running throughout this movie and the orphanage clergy and personnel are not brutal as in other movies. Their goal is for the children to be adopted and have brand new and better lives.