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from Japan Breath Official Site
- Argentina : 2008 / 9 / 11
- Netherlands : 2008 / 7 / 10
- Spain : 2008 / 7 / 4 Aliento
- Japan : 2008 / 5 / 3 ブレス
- Russia : 2008 / 4 / 17 Вздох
- Belgium : 2008 / 3 / 12 Breath
- Israel : 2008 / 1/ 24
- Sinapore : 2007 / 12 / 27 Breath
- HongKong : 2007 / 11 / 01 呼吸
- Taiwan : 2007 / 11 / 30 窒息情慾
- France : 2007 / 11 / 21 Souffle
Autumn 2006, Korean Film Observatory
This is the Time for a Challenge, Interview : Ha Jung-woo of Time and The Unforgiven
July 13 2007, Newyork Times
They’re All Through With Love, Yet Searching for More
. . . . . “Time” has been described as a comedy about the hollowness of relationships in a global consumerist culture, and it certainly is. The film’s three lead performances, by Mr. Ha as Ji-woo and by Ms. Seong and Ms. Park as the two incarnations of his lover, are fearlessly honest, so attuned to contemporary anxieties about sex, love and social status that the characters’ unhappiness is as squirm-inducing as the movie’s close-ups of sliced flesh . . . . .
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July 13 2007, Film Journal
Review : Time
. . . . . Ha manages to be very appealing and sexy in his doltish, semi-sad-sack role, but the film really belongs to Park, whose placidly perfect, lovely face conceals a veritable volcano of emotion. The actress Sandra Oh once humorously described to me a traditionally known, particular concept of Korean female rage, which she tapped into for her scenes in Sideways. Park’s performance here is as graphic a depiction of that ultimate terror as can be imagined.
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July 13 2007, FILM-FORWARD.COM
Review : Time
. . . . . No matter how fantastical the plot, Kim Ki-duk’s direction remains lucid. (Even Ji-woo has a hard time not confusing Seh-hee with See-hee.) If his film does go into a delirious and sometimes savagely funny warp in the last section, it’s a great wonder that the actors can keep such tricky material afloat. Ha Jung-woo comes off extremely realistic as the typically nagged boyfriend early on and then subtly brokenhearted later, and the actresses come off equally well-rounded as the paranoid girlfriend and the calmly crazy lover.
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June 26 2006, Screen daily
Review : Time
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Film director Kim Ki-duk has been one of the most talked about film directors in Korea. He is referred to as a ‘hot potato’ or ‘outsider,’ of Korean cinema, while he is also described as an art-house or a leading Korean film director by others. On today’s Cinema Spotlight, we’ll learn about this controversial film director and his works.
Last May, a small and good-natured Asian filmmaker from Korea stole the limelight of the Cannes Film Festival. Can you guess whom I am referring to? Yes, that’s right, it was director Kim Ki-duk! He was invited to the renowned international film festival to compete with his 11th film ‘Breath’! In fact, Kim’s works has been more popular abroad than in Korea. So what makes international audiences and critics pay greater attention to his work?
Ha Jung Woo was also invited to cannes 2007 for breath, but unfortunately could not attnend due to drama H.I.T. 
[ Video ] Step / Photocall / Press Conference
May 21 2007, Chosunilbo
Kim Ki-duk Wows Cannes Film Festival With ‘Breath’
Korea's director Kim Ki-duk (L) poses with cast members, from 2nd L-R, Chang Chen, Zia and Kang In-hyung at the arrivals for the evening screening of their film "Breath" at the 60th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday./REUTERS
The Korean director Kim Ki-duk screened his movie “Breath” on Saturday in competition at the 60th Cannes Film Festival. The official screening and press conference were held at the Lumiere Theatre in the French resort town.Kim, wearing dark sunglasses at a press conference, joked, “The sunglasses I’m wearing now are the ones I wore when I appeared as a prison official in the film. You may be still watching the movie right at this moment.” Breath, which opened in Korea on April 26, depicts a woman who starts a relationship with a condemned criminal after discovering her husband’s infidelity. Korean actor Zia and Taiwanese actor Chang Chen play the leads. “I wanted to highlight the difficulty of social and human relations — so much so that you find it hard to breathe,” Kim said. “At the same time, I wanted to show the difficulty of getting the message of my films across in the Korean society.” Many of Kim’s previous films have been criticized and shunned by general audiences and even by some film critics here due to their strong and graphic visual description.
Mar 9 2007, KOFIC news
Darcy Paquet (KOFIC)
The Oporto International Film Festival, better known as Fantasporto, presented two awards to Korean cinema in its closing ceremony on March 3.
BONG Joon-ho’s acclaimed third feature The Host screened in the festival’s main Official Fantasy competition section and was presented with an award for Best Director. The winner of this section was Pan’s Labyrinth by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro.
Meanwhile, in the 17th Director’s Week section, young actor HA Jung-woo won Best Actor for his leading role in KIM Ki-duk’s thirteenth film Time. HA, who is seen as a key up-and-coming actor for his talent and his English abilities, also appears in KIM’s next film Breath, currently in post-production.
HA is the fourth Korean actor to receive an award at Fantasporto, following SUH Jung in The Isle in 2001, JANG Jin-young in Sorum in 2003, and LIM Soo-jung in A Tale of Two Sisters in 2004.
Sep 16 2007, Twitch
Review : Breath
. . . . . The characters were played well with both leads of the wife played by Chang Chen, and Park Ji-a who played the prisoner Yeon, giving strong performances. Her outburst of emotion does touch you as very real, and Park Ji-a manages to convey his emotions without overplaying the physical performance and without using speech.
. . . . . The husband, played by Ha Jung-woo, is also good although his part is quite limited. You really do feel the frustrations of scenes where he is struggling to understand his wife and where he has given up everything in order to try and rescue his marriage . . . . .
May 21 2007, Hollywoodreporter
Review : Breath
Bottom Line: A strange tale with striking images for the director’s fans only.
May 14 2007, Screen Daily
Review : Breath
April 20 2007, VarietyAsiaOnline
Review : Breath
. . . . . Monomonikered Zia — billed as Park Ji-ah in Kim’s “Spring, Summer” and “The Coast Guard,” in which she had small roles — is terrific as Yeon, with an unconventional face that perfectly conveys hidden depths of hurt. Hou Hsiao-hsien favorite Chang does his best with a mute role, while Ha (from Kim’s “Time”) is OK as the boring husband . . . . .
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