The Korean Wedding Chest
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The Korean Wedding Chest is a 2009 documentary film
about Korean
wedding traditions directed by Ulrike Ottinger
. The German language
film was described as "capturing the collision of ancient tradition and modern culture on the subject of love and marriage in Korea in a film that echoes the beauty, precision and care of the rituals she examines" by the Los Angeles Times
. The Washington Posts website refers to the surrealist style of the film as being well suited to "the regal pacing of the ritual" and calls the film one of Ottinger's most praised works.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
about Korean
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
wedding traditions directed by Ulrike Ottinger
Ulrike Ottinger
Ulrike Ottinger is a German filmmaker, documentarian photographer and professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Biography:From 1959 she was a visiting student at the Academy of Arts in Munich and worked as a painter...
. The German language
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
film was described as "capturing the collision of ancient tradition and modern culture on the subject of love and marriage in Korea in a film that echoes the beauty, precision and care of the rituals she examines" by the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
. The Washington Posts website refers to the surrealist style of the film as being well suited to "the regal pacing of the ritual" and calls the film one of Ottinger's most praised works.
See also
- TaigaTaiga (film)Taiga is an eight-hour documentary directed and photographed by Ulrike Ottinger.It focuses on the life and rituals of nomadic peoples in Northern Mongolia, specifically the Darkhad nomads and the Sojon Urinjanghai.-External links:*...
- Freak OrlandoFreak OrlandoFreak Orlando is a 1981 comedy film directed by Ulrike Ottinger and starring Magdalena Montezuma.-Cast:* Magdalena Montezuma - Orlando, als Pilger, Orlando Zyldopa, Orlando Orlanda, Orlando Capricho...* Delphine Seyrig .....
- PyebaekPyebaekPyebaek is a Korean wedding custom that is traditionally held a few days after the official ceremony, with only family members present.. The ceremony begins with the older couple seated on cushions behind a table in front of a painted screen, with the newlyweds opposite them...
- Marriage in South KoreaMarriage in South KoreaMarriage in South Korea is similar to that in the West, but has unique features of its own, especially due to the influence of Korean Confucianism.-Eligibility:Marriage in South Korea is a union between a man and a woman...