Cover image for Peppermint Candy [digital video].
Title:
Peppermint Candy [digital video].
Publication Date:
1999

2024
Publication Information:
Film Movement, 1999.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (130 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Abstract:
Yongho (Sul Kyung-gu) stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Proceeding to move backward in time, Lee Chang-dong's acclaimed second directorial feature rewinds the protagonist's loss of humanity - from his fraught, self-hating middle age through his callow teens. The moments in between these events, as seen through the lens of Yongho's oppressive struggles, mirror South Korea's traumatic political history during the late 20th century.An official selection of the Directors' Fortnight selection in Cannes and winner of the Special Prize of the Jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, PEPPERMINT CANDY is a powerful work of Korean New Wave cinema that elegizes a generation of marginalized people with "quiet, heartbreaking power" (The New York Times). Presented in a new 4K restoration.
General Note:
Title from title frames.

Film
Performers:
Kim Yeo-jin, Lee Dae-yeon, Moon So-Ri, Sul Kyung-gu
Technical Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
Korean
Electronic Access:
A Kanopy streaming video Access immediately on Kanopy
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