Director Cho Jung-rae has made a name for himself with period films like “Spirits’ Homecoming” and its sequel “Spirits’ Homecoming, Unfinished Story” as well as “Duresori: The Voice of the East”, a story set in the National High School of Traditional Arts revolving around singing. For his new work “The Singer”, he combines both the period setting of the Spirits’ Homecoming films and the singing angle from his debut.
Synopsis
The story that made the world laugh
The voice that made the world cry
Ten years of King Yeongjo’s reign, Hak-gyu, a talented sorikkun (pansori singer) searches for his wife, Gan-nan. One by one, the band of entertainers led by a singer is filled with excitement as the Eight Provinces of Joseon’s traveling theater begins. We meet the impoverished Joseon on the road! Hak-gyu’s song that made the people cry begins to be the sound that changes the world.
Synopsis
The story that made the world laugh
The voice that made the world cry
Ten years of King Yeongjo’s reign, Hak-gyu, a talented sorikkun (pansori singer) searches for his wife, Gan-nan. One by one, the band of entertainers led by a singer is filled with excitement as the Eight Provinces of Joseon’s traveling theater begins. We meet the impoverished Joseon on the road! Hak-gyu’s song that made the people cry begins to be the sound that changes the world.
- 7/4/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Comédie humaine
France’s Xavier Giannoli scored a sleeper hit with 2018’s supernatural tinged drama The Apparition starring Vincent Lindon (scoring a Cesar nod for newcomer Galatea Bellugi), but moves towards something a bit more high profile next year with his adaptation of Balzac’s Lost Illusions, which will star Cecile De France, Xavier Dolan, Gerard Depardieu, Jeanne Balibar, Vincent Lacoste, Andre Marcon, Benjamin Voison, Jean-Francois Stevenin and Louis-Do de Lencquesaing. The title is produced by Olivier Delbosc and lensed by five-time Cesar nominee Christophe Beaucarne (Mr. Nobody; Coco Before Chanel). Giannoli has competed twice in Cannes, with 2006’s The Singer (also starring De France and Depardieu) and 2009’s In the Beginning.…...
France’s Xavier Giannoli scored a sleeper hit with 2018’s supernatural tinged drama The Apparition starring Vincent Lindon (scoring a Cesar nod for newcomer Galatea Bellugi), but moves towards something a bit more high profile next year with his adaptation of Balzac’s Lost Illusions, which will star Cecile De France, Xavier Dolan, Gerard Depardieu, Jeanne Balibar, Vincent Lacoste, Andre Marcon, Benjamin Voison, Jean-Francois Stevenin and Louis-Do de Lencquesaing. The title is produced by Olivier Delbosc and lensed by five-time Cesar nominee Christophe Beaucarne (Mr. Nobody; Coco Before Chanel). Giannoli has competed twice in Cannes, with 2006’s The Singer (also starring De France and Depardieu) and 2009’s In the Beginning.…...
- 1/1/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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