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- Also Known As:
- Chwihwaseon
- Painted Fire
- Strokes of Fire
- Drunk on Women and Poetry
- Year:
- 2002
- Country:
- South Korea
- Predominant Genre:
- Non-fiction
- Director:
- Im Kwon-taek
- Best Performances:
- Unknown
- Premiss:
- In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.
- Themes:
- Personal change
- Self-expression
- Totalitarianism
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Talented artists can be a pain in the neck, but we need them more than they do us: For they create all the man-made beauty of the world.
This movie gets to grips with the mystery of what makes squiggles on paper into art. Our contemporary, self indulgent, so-called artists could learn a good deal from this.
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Like Picasso, this artist cannot keep his hands off the decorous young things that are his muses: His art being his most honest expression of the life force – more, even, than of his making love. Talent makes you lonely, since you can only display it to others who understand, you can rarely truly share it with them; hence, the drunken self haunting of his own genius here.
However, this film remains strangely aloof from the genius exhibited, as if the director knows he can never match such sublimity; making the film something of an uninvolving experience.
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