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The Korean Wedding Chest (2009)
Ulrike Ottinger’s provocative mélange of ethnography, stunning tableaux and baroque vignettes was inspired by what she calls the “well-stocked miracle” of Korean wedding chests, assembled according to time-honored customs. This exploration of love and marriage in South Korea looks closely at ancient and present-day rituals, revealing what is old in the new and new in the old. Her inquiry leads us from shamans, temples and priests, to the enchanted maze of 21st-century Seoul, where vendors of medicinal herbs co-exist with high-tech beauty salons for wedding couples and secular marriage palaces. Using film much like a canvas, Ottinger creates a modern fairytale flush with mythological heroes, traditional rites, ancestral symbolism, dreams of eternal love, and a whole lot of Western kitsch. One of her most acclaimed documentaries, it captures the amazing phenomenon of new mega-cities and their contradictory societies caught in a balancing act.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Ulrike Ottinger
Crew: Ulrike Ottinger (Director), Yang Jin-mo (Editor), Ulrike Ottinger (Producer), Bettina Blickwede (Editor), Ulrike Ottinger (Writer), Ulrike Ottinger (Director of Photography)
Subtitle: ETC.
Release: Oct 01, 2009
Popularity: 0.044
Language: Deutsch, 한국어/조선말
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