Lee Yoon-ki | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 59–60) |
| Education | University of Southern California -MA in Business Administration/Economics |
| Occupation(s) | Film director,screenwriter |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 이윤기 |
| Revised Romanization | I Yun-gi |
| McCune–Reischauer | I Yun'gi |
Lee Yoon-ki (Korean: 이윤기; born 1965), is a South Koreanfilm director andscreenwriter.
Lee Yoon-ki earned hisMA in business administration/economics at theUniversity of Southern California. After returning to Korea, he worked as a producer and director of severalshort films. His first feature,This Charming Girl, attracted much attention from major film festivals, includingSundance andBerlin. His second feature,Love Talk, was invited to compete at theKarlovy Vary International Film Festival, and his third and fourth features,Ad-lib Night andMy Dear Enemy were both critically acclaimed.[1]
Since his debut, Lee has emerged as one of Korea's leading sources of small-budgeted, intimate dramas about ordinary people. He is particularly skilled at inhabiting the worlds of female characters, and he has worked with a range of impressive up and coming actresses includingKim Ji-soo,Han Hyo-joo andIm Soo-jung, and most importantly Korea's top actressJeon Do-yeon.[2] Though Lee empathizes with women marginalized by apatriarchal society, he refuses to exploit easy cultural signifiers to arouse audience sympathy. The characters also remain rather elusive amidst Lee's always-atmospheric images. But if his films are refreshingly unsentimental, their imagery is also refreshingly evocative, more romantic than realist.[3]
He considersHou Hsiao-hsien as his film mentor. Other influences areRobert Altman’s earlier works,Woody Allen,Martin Scorsese, and other American independent films from the 70s and 80s, including theCoen brothers’Blood Simple.[4] His favorite artist isEdward Hopper.[5]
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