The Korean, who has achieved international fame since his role in Parasite, is a regular at the Cannes Film Festival, which never ceases to distinguish him.
Dans la toile, or Cobweb, was presented out of competition in a midnight session at the Cannes Film Festival. With this eleventh feature film, South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon signs a crazy comic nugget.
Filmic suspense, poisoned ambitions, convoluted filming conditions, Cobweb or Dans la toile deals with desires that are not necessarily satisfied and tributes that are not always perfect.
At 56, Song Kang-Ho is therefore a bit at home, happy to be in Cannes, which makes him feel good. The day before, Friday May 25, he presented Kim Jee-woon’s new film, Cobweb – Dans la toile.
He plays a director from the 70s, obsessed with the idea of reshooting the end of his last film in order to make it a masterpiece. And who, for that, does not hesitate to sequester in a studio recalcitrant actors, a producer in panic, and an agent of the censorship committee threatening.
Kim Jee-Woon tackles the well-known genre of the mise en abyme, a film within the film, by alternating the color scenes of the main story, and those in black and white filmed by its fictional director.
Dans la toile does not claim to answer these questions but highlights them in the middle of the Cannes Film Festival where the films follow one another and are not alike. It addresses the issue of plagiarism and the pressure of the legacy that great directors leave on the shoulders of those who follow. The story takes place in Seoul in 1970, Kim Jee-Woon drew inspiration from transformations in cinema since 2020. he explained.
When you are an artist, you are necessarily influenced by someone. And we struggle to find ourselves, ourselves, in the middle of all this. This film takes a look at that aspect.
Along the water, we only dream of one thing, that the director played by Song Kang Ho, with multiple awards, finishes his film and sees the long-awaited result. Like his mentor, the filmmaker of the film in the film refuses nothing, even if it means sacrificing everything by burning the entire set.
In the web reserves a final scene, itself in a cinema, where Kim’s masterpiece receives a standing ovation.
To the delight of the public, the so-called film that caused so many adventures and misadventures for our heroes, is screened. And what a surprise…!
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