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REVIEW

Feb 10 2009, Vareity

Review : My Dear Enemy

Feb 09 2009, berlinonline.de

Review : My Dear Enemy

. . . . . Serene is in “My Dear Enemy” too, thanks to the leading actor Ha Jung-woo. Chaser”. Ha is one of the most versatile young actors in Korea, last year he shocked as serial killer in the hit movie “The Chaser”. . . . . .

Feb 09 2009, theauteurs.com

Review : My Dear Enemy

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. . . . . But even if the pace flags from time to time, it’s never a chore to hang out with this ill-matched duo—Jeon’s breezy, live-for-the-moment dreamer Byoung-Woon makes particularly good company (the appealing actor is near-unrecognisable as the meek-mannered psychopath from last year’s thriller The Chaser). A glib charmer with an eye for the ladies and a stream of ready patter (captured nicely via the slangy English-language subtitles), Byoung-Woon initially comes over as a slippery heel, especially when—in the course of calling in numerous small debts in order to give Hee Soo the hefty sum she’s owed—he places his ex in some humiliating positions.

While Ha’s nuanced performance poignantly reveals her superficially tough character’s sensitivity and vulnerability, the situations she ends up in with Byoung-Woon are essentially comic—some of them, indeed, are laugh-out-loud hilarious, all the more so for being presented with the straightest of faces. . . . . .

Feb 2009, kino-zeit.de

Review : My Dear Enemy

 

NEWS

Feb 11 2009, KOFIC News

Korean Films sell well at Berlin’s EFM

 

Korean company Fine Cut as well as CJ Entertainment can both claim success at this years EFM in the Berlin Film Festival.  Fine Cut leads the pack selling 11 films alone to one company, Scandinavia’s Non Stop Television.  It also sold gay themed Antique (MIN Kyu-dong) to Thailand’s Rose Media, and surprise hit thriller The Chaser (NA Hong-jin)to Latin America, several Eastern Block countries including Yugloslavia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria. Both films have already sold well in other territories. . . . .

 The EFM wraps up on the 15th of February so the potential for even more sales continues.

 

David OXENBRIDGE (KOFIC)

Feb 10 2009, Screendaily

Germany’s Ascot Elite chews up Chaw

. . . . . Fine Cut has also closed more sales on The Chaser, to Spain’s Versus Entertainment, . . . . .

Feb 07 2009, Screendaily

Morivision boards The Boat

Liz Shackleton in Berlin

South Korea ’s Mirovision has picked up international rights to Kim Young-nam’s drama The Boat, starring Korean actor Ha Jung-woo and Japan’s Tsumabuki Satoshi. . . . .

Ha starred in hot Korean thriller The Chaser while Satoshi appears in current Japanese smash hit Pandemic. . . . .

Feb 06 2009, Screendaily

Korea’s Fine Cut wraps up pre-EFM sales

 Liz Shackleton in Berlin

Seoul-based sales agent Fine Cut has wrapped up a slew of sales on the eve of the EFM, including the sale of Antique, which screens here in the Culinary Cinema section, to Thailand’s Rose Media. . . . .

In addition Fine Cut has sold serial-killer thriller The Chaser to Borsalino for Latin America, Maywin for ex-USSR, Tuck Vision for ex-Yugoslavia and Vapet Production for Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria. The film has already been sold to most major territories. . . . .

 Our School’s ET was sold to Schengchi for Taiwan.

A total of 11 films were sold to Non Stop Television for Scandinavia including Antique, Crush And Blush, My Dear Enemy and Gogo 70s.

 

Source : Finecut Homepage

Jan 8 2009, IndieWire

Berlinale’s 39th Forum Announces Titles

This year’s 39th Forum programme at the Berlin International Film Festival offers “the eclecticism and confidence of the next generation of independent filmmakers.” The Forum offers work from Korea, the US, Romania, and the Netherlands, many of them directorial debuts, with most of them being shown as world premieres . . . . .

Other films in the program include So Yong Kim’s “Treeless Mountain,” Lee Yoon-Ki’s “My Dear Enemy,‘ . . . . . [Peter Knegt]

Jan 8 2009, Hollywood Reporter

Asia, U.S., Netherlands at forefront in Forum

 

Berlinale sidebar dedicated to avant garde filmmaking

Experimental cinema from the U.S., Korea and the Netherlands will take center stage at this year’s Berlinale Forum, the Berlin sidebar devoted to avant-garde filmmaking . . . . .

Other Korean titles picked for the 2009 Forum include Lee Yoon-Ki’s “My Dear Enemy” starring Jeon Do-Yeon (“Milyang”);  . . . .
The 59th Berlinale runs Feb. 5-15.