I'm sorry if anyone has mentioned this film before; I missed some of the earlier postings. A recent movie from Korea which deals with photography is "Christmas in August" (1998) by Hur Jin-Ho which screened in one of the smaller sections at Cannes last year. The hero of the film is a photographer who runs a small shop in Seoul. In several scenes we see him photographing his clients, including a poignant scene where an elderly woman arrives at night, asking him to take her funeral picture. The photographer (who has a fatal disease) takes a self-portrait in a later scene, at which time the shot dissolves into his own funeral picture and pulls back to reveal the funeral. The final scene in the film centers around the posthumous gift of a photograph to the female lead. It was both critically acclaimed and very popular in Korea, and is one of my personal favorites! [In the category of life imitating art, the Korean film industry rallied in Seoul recently to protest U.S. government pressure to abolish Korea's screen quota system. Many of the top actors and filmmakers in the country marched through the streets with their own funeral pictures, complete with diagonal black sashes, draped around their necks] And finally, Alexei Balabanov's 1998 feature "Of Freaks and Men" (Pro urodov i ljudej) follows the shady dealings of an S&M photographer in St. Petersburg who gradually insinuates himself into an upper-class family. The entire film is shot in black-and-white and tinted to resemble an old photograph. The cinematography in this film is simply amazing! --Darcy _____________________________________________________________________ Darcy Paquet [log in to unmask] The Inst. of Foreign Lang. Studies Korea University, Seoul KOREA ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.