Revivre, director IM Kwon-taek’s 102nd feature film was officially invited to the Critics Week. The event, a newly established side bar section this year will be held jointly by the German Critics Association and the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The section was established last among the three major international film festivals after Cannes and Venice. The event will run from February 5 to 12 during the film jubilee period. The organizing committee explained that they selected Revivre as the film matches the purpose of the special week to select works that profoundly and richly ask various questions. 

 

“IM Kwon-taek, a living legend of Korean cinema, doesn’t play it safe, but takes all kinds of risks in his latest (102nd) output,” the organizing committee was quoted by Finecut, who is in charge of international distribution. "A touching yet completely unsentimental reflection on aging and beauty is told through a complex structure of flashbacks, which in itself defies the finality of death.”

 

Revivre is based on the original novel of the same title which picked up the 28th Lee Sang Literary Prize in 2004. The film explores the anguish of a man attracted to a healthy young woman despite his wife dying of cancer. AHN Sung-ki played the middle-aged man who is debating between his sick and old wife and a young female co-worker. KIM Ho-jong and KIM Gyu-ri played the wife and the female co-worker, respectively. The film was screened at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, the 39th Toronto International Film Festival, the 19th Busan International Film Festival and the 25th Singapore International Film Festival. The film will hit screens in Korea this spring.