A Bittersweet Life (2005) Movie Review
A Bittersweet Life 2005 Movie Plot
A Bittersweet Life: Directed by Jee-woon Kim. With Lee Byung-hun, Shin Min-a, Yeong-Cheol Kim, Hwang Jung-min. Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn’t proceed by his boss’s orders.
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A Bittersweet Life 2005 Movie Trailer
A Bittersweet Life 2005 Movie Release Date, budget and collection
Release date: April 1, 2005 (South Korea)
Director: Kim Jee-woon
Box office: 7.6 million USD
Cinematography: Ji-yong Kim
Distributed by: CJ Entertainment
Awards: Baeksang Arts Award for Best Leading Actor in Film, MORE
What happens at the end of a bittersweet life?
The film ends with a continuation of an earlier scene, where Sun-woo looks out of a window at the city below him. After making sure he’s alone, he begins to shadowbox his reflection in the glass, looking very happy.
Is Bittersweet Life worth watching?
A slick and stylish revenge drama. Very stylish and very bloody, A Bittersweet Life may not be the ‘classic’ that some have hailed it to be, but it is a very good addition to the Asian gangster genre that is well worth watching.
What is the meaning of a bittersweet life?
1. adjective. If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones.
Is a bittersweet life on Netflix?
Watch A Bittersweet Life | Netflix.
Where did the term bittersweet come from?
Celastrus scandens is native to central and eastern North America. It was given the name bittersweet by colonists in the 18th century because the fruits resembled the appearance of the fruits of common nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), which was also called bittersweet
A Bittersweet Life 2005 Movie Review
After Tale of Two Sisters, Ji-woon Kim’s new movie has been eagerly anticipated. In his previous film, the marks of originality, intellectual challenge and superb visual style hailed the possibility of a brave new voice in Korean cinema.
A Bittersweet Life commences with similarly awesome photography and ambiance. The wind in the leaves of a tree – Is it the leaves or the wind that moves? asks the disciple of the master. Neither, he replies, it is your mind and heart that moves. Cut to La Dolce Vita, the swish bar restaurant which we are to discover is also the gangland stronghold of Sun-Woo. A single tree in the centre of the restaurant’s sky lounge. The colours red and black, glossy and visually forceful in the lounge – they not only play heavily in the film but make any small deviations stand out. Lushness or delicacy is easily conveyed later in the film by colour, a respite to the bloodshed that will almost swamp us. A tinkling piano (Chopin is used as part of the score) adds a delicate counterpoint to what we know will surely be an overload of violence and mayhem. source
