The Korean Wedding Chest
2009-10-01 | 82 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
Recommendations
-
And We Had Silence...
-
Alena
-
Bird Thongchai Concert #1/1988 Kaolao ThongChai (Mai-Ngok)
-
Rheme Maining Sources
-
Steel - Variations on a Theme
-
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
-
Rewind 2: 1996
-
Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror
-
Sudah
-
Main Krishna Hoon
-
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
-
Serial Killers: The Real Life Hannibal Lecters
-
The Moving Creatures
-
For the Honor of the Muffler
-
Hannibal Brooks
-
Jorge Drexler - Eco2
-
Kalahari
-
Zigot N'abıyon Ya?
Similar Movies
-
Microcosmos
-
The Domino Effect
-
Ice/Sea
-
Guitar
-
Dominguinhos
-
Plains: Testimony of an Ethnocide
-
Dig!
-
In the Realms of the Unreal
-
6999 Doors
-
There is No Death For Me
-
Walking Under Water
-
Singapore GaGa
-
Léa devant la caméra
-
The Aryans
-
Es geht um Alles
-
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
-
Dance for All
-
The Whale and the Raven
-
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
-
Strane straniere