New York Times Review the Spy Gone North
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Director Yoon Jong Bin's latest moving picture, The Spy Gone North, starring Hwang Jung-min, Lee Sung-min, Cho Jin-woong, and Ju Ji-hoon, portrays the true story of old South Korean amanuensis, Park Chae-seo. The flick premiered in the Midnight Screenings section of the Cannes Film Festival in May of 2018.
Synopsis
Gear up in 1993, with tensions running high in S Korea among rumors surrounding North Korea's nuclear weapon evolution, Park Seok Young is recruited by the National Security Agency to infiltrate the North Korean aristocracy under the codename "Heuk-geum-seong" (Black Venus). He poses as a businessman seeking opportunities in North Korea, hiding his identity from even his family to arroyo Lee Myeong-Un, a high-ranking Northward Korean official residing in Beijing. Equally Seok Yeong manages to earn the trust of North Korean power players, he gets wind of a covert deal betwixt the Southward and North Korean governments. Seok Young feels conflicted over risking everything for his land, given this new data.
NY Premiere
Director Yoon Jong-bin's The Spy Gone North (공작, 2018)
Wed, Baronial xv, 2018
vi:00 PM | Reception
6:xxx PM | Screening
9:00 PM | Discussion
Dolby 88
1350 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
Nigh the Director
Yoon Jong-bin is a South Korean motion-picture show director known for his detailed portrayals of corruption and criminal offense inside society. He made his successful characteristic moving-picture show debut in 2005, with the release of The Unforgiven, winning many awards at the 2005 Busan International Film Festival. He is also widely known for his moving picture, Nameless Gangster: Rules of Fourth dimension, which covered the topic of the Korean government's declaration of state of war confronting organized crime in 1990. The film was a major success, topping the list of ten near watched films in Republic of korea for the first quarter of 2012.
Almost the Speaker
Charles Bramesco is a moving-picture show and television critic living in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Forbes, Nylon, Vulture, The A.V. Club, Indiewire, The Dissolve, Vox and Pitchfork. His favorite picture show is Boogie Nights.
Most THE MODERATOR
Samuel Jamier is the executive director of The New York Asian Moving-picture show Festival, North America'southward leading festival of popular Asian cinema, "the world'due south best-curated plan of new and classic Asian movie theatre" (Indiewire), conceived and produced past Subway Cinema (and held at Film Society of Lincoln Center and SVA Theatre), a flick and culture nonprofit which he too heads since 2015. He is also the founder of Windwellers Films and Citizen Pain Releasing Productions, a film producer, and a partner at the Hong Kong based motion picture sales bureau Good Move Media.
Until July 2013, he was senior film programmer and curator at Japan Club, responsible for the choice and organization of all films, series and festivals, and was in accuse of its acclaimed Japanese Film Festival, Japan Cuts, for several years. Previously, he was senior programmer at The Korea Guild, where he designed and executed cultural programming initiatives including an almanac program of public lectures and workshops on topics ranging from strange policy and corporate symposia to Korean picture palace and traditional performing arts, hosted by heads of country, senior government officials, business concern leaders, university professors, authors, picture directors and actors, equally well as living national treasures.
Samuel Jamier earned doctoral, MA and BA degrees in English Literature, Comparative Literature, and Medieval Philosophy, with Honors, from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University; is an Agrégation Laureate in Modern English Literature; and a graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. He too completed postgraduate studies at Tokyo University, Japan and Rex'southward Higher in London, England.
He is of Korean descent, and grew up in Brittany, France.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the Metropolis Council.
Source: https://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/item/1191-the-spy-gone-north-nyc-premiere
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