Chi-hwa-seon
{{Infobox film
| name = Chi-hwa-seon
| image = Painted_Fire_movie_poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| native_name = {{Infobox Chinese/Korean|child=yes|hide=no|header=none
| hangul = 취화선
| hanja = 醉畫仙
| rr = Chwihwaseon
| mr = Ch'wihwasŏn}}
| director = Im Kwon-taek
| producer = Lee Tae-won
| writer = Im Kwon-taek
Do-ol
Byung-sam Min
| starring = Choi Min-sik
Ahn Sung-ki
| music = Kim Young-dong
| cinematography = Jeong Il-seong
| editing = Park Sun-deok
| distributor = Cinema Service
| released = {{Film date|2002|05|10}}
| runtime = 117 minutes
| country = South Korea
| language = Korean
| budget =
}}
Chi-hwa-seon or Chwi-hwa-seon (also known as Painted Fire, Strokes of Fire or Drunk on Women and Poetry) is a 2002 South Korean historical drama film directed by Im Kwon-taek. It stars Choi Min-sik as Jang Seung-eop (commonly known by his pen name, Owon), a nineteenth-century Korean painter who changed the direction of Korean art.
The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, where Im Kwon-taek won Best Director, shared with Paul Thomas Anderson for Punch-Drunk Love.
In 2020, the film was ranked 13th by The Guardian among the classics of modern South Korean cinema.{{cite web |last=Bradshaw|first=Peter|title=Classics of modern South Korean cinema – ranked! |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/13/classics-of-modern-south-korean-cinema-ranked |website=The Guardian |date=13 February 2020|accessdate=24 May 2020}}
Synopsis
It begins with the Korean artist being suspicious of a Japanese art-lover who values his work. The story then goes back to his early years. Beginning as a vagabond with a talent for drawing, he has a talent for imitating other people's art, but is urged to go on and develop a style of his own. This process is painful and he often behaves very badly, getting drunk and being hostile to those who care about him and try to help him.
These events are set against the struggle for reform within Korea, caught between China and Japan (annexed by Japan in 1910, outside the film's time-frame).
Cast
- Choi Min-sik as Jang Seung-up
- Ahn Sung-ki as Kim Byung-Moon
- Yoo Ho-jeong as Mae-hyang
- Kim Yeo-jin as Jin-jong
- Son Ye-jin as So-woon
Awards
References
{{Reflist}}
= Sources =
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080328152832/http://www.kino.com/chihwaseon/ Distributor's page]
- {{cite web|url=http://www.koreafilmfest.com/index.php?p=retrospettiva&l=eng|title=Im Kwon-taek's Retrospective|accessdate=2007-10-31|publisher=Koreafilmfes|year=2007}}
- {{Cite news |last=James|first=David|title=Chihwaseon: Review|newspaper=Film Comment|volume=39|number=2|date=March 2003|pages=75–76}}
- {{Cite news |last=Johnston|first=Sheila|title=Master's art of observation|newspaper=Screen International|number=1359|date=2002-06-14|pages=24}}
- {{cite web|first=So-young|last=Kim|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/attach/1KoreanFilmHistoryandChihwaseon.pdf|title=Korean Film History and 'Chihwaseon'|accessdate=2008-02-17|publisher=Korean Film Council|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002224154/http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/attach/1KoreanFilmHistoryandChihwaseon.pdf|archivedate=2008-10-02}}
- {{Cite news |last=LeMarie|first=Yannick |author2=Michel Ciment |author3=Hubert Niogret|title=Im Kwon-taek (Review of Chihwaseon and Interview)|newspaper=Positif|number=502|date=December 2002|pages=4–5, 9–14|language=French}}
- {{Cite journal |last=MacNab|first=Geoffrey|title=Chihwaseon Drunk on Women and Poetry|journal=Sight & Sound|volume=13|issue=6|date=June 2003|pages=40–41|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/1325/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060116065728/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/1325|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 16, 2006|accessdate=2007-12-04}}
- {{Cite news |last=Morrison|first=Alan|title=The reviews|newspaper=Empire|date=July 2003|pages=52}}
- {{cite web|url=http://wc03.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:265810|title=Chihwaseon|accessdate=2007-11-01|last=Ralske|first=Josh|publisher=Allmovie}} {{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- {{Cite news |title=Rushes: the bigger picture: portrait of the artist|newspaper=Sight and Sound|volume=13|number=6|date=June 2003|pages=4–5}}
- {{Cite news |last=Stratton|first=David|title=Film Reviews|newspaper=Variety|date=2002-06-03|pages=22}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0317234|Chihwaseon}}
- [http://koreanfilm.org/kfilm02.html#chihwaseon Review] at koreanfilm.org
{{Im Kwon-taek}}
{{Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Film}}
{{Grand Prix}}
Category:2002 biographical drama films
Category:South Korean historical drama films
Category:South Korean biographical drama films
Category:Biographical films about painters
Category:Films set in the 19th century
Category:Films shot in Incheon
Category:Films directed by Im Kwon-taek
Category:Best Picture Blue Dragon Film Award winners
Category:2000s Korean-language films
Category:Cultural depictions of South Korean people
Category:Cultural depictions of 19th-century painters
Category:2000s historical drama films