[Our thanks to Charles Webb for the following review.]
The funeral has long been a dramatic staple to allow the audience to see the emotional undercurrents among family and friends. Usually, the stories are revelatory - the past and complicated present bubble to the surface and the characters must confront uncomfortable truths about themselves and each other. First time writer/director Seung-bin Baek's Members of the Funeral wanders confidently through some of the same dark territory using a mixture of a fractured timeline and intense performances to expose one family's relationship to a dead teenage boy. The film is an assured and incisive first-time effort looking like a million bucks but shot on the cheap.
The funeral is for a young man named Hee-jun, played with an enigmatic calm by Ju-seung Lee. For the principal characters he represents the embodiment of something that each of them craves or has lost - love, talent, or perfect friendship. Lee portrays...
The funeral has long been a dramatic staple to allow the audience to see the emotional undercurrents among family and friends. Usually, the stories are revelatory - the past and complicated present bubble to the surface and the characters must confront uncomfortable truths about themselves and each other. First time writer/director Seung-bin Baek's Members of the Funeral wanders confidently through some of the same dark territory using a mixture of a fractured timeline and intense performances to expose one family's relationship to a dead teenage boy. The film is an assured and incisive first-time effort looking like a million bucks but shot on the cheap.
The funeral is for a young man named Hee-jun, played with an enigmatic calm by Ju-seung Lee. For the principal characters he represents the embodiment of something that each of them craves or has lost - love, talent, or perfect friendship. Lee portrays...
- 1/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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