Words from A Bittersweet Life

A Bittersweet Life director Kim Jee-woon spoke to the Korean press yesterday after a preview screening of his latest film.

"This movie basically deals with relationship breakups resulting from small communication breakdowns," Kim said. The characters in the film are very stylish, but the movie is actually about "the foolishness of men" who don’t know how to communicate, the director said. "Just one trivial mistake or decision leads them to an irrevocable situation. And I think that’s what life is like."

Lee Byung-hun, the star of the film said, "I decided to take part in the film because I really liked the story... And as a fan of Kim, I was also very curious about what it would be like if he made a noir film."

50 minutes of footage was cut during post production, trimming the film down to 2 hours. Some scenes not included in the film were used by Lee Byung-hun as part of a music video he directed for singer Yangpa which we featured here a couple weeks ago. So if there was something in the video that you really liked don't be upset if it's not in the film.

Release date in South Korea : 2005/04/01

via TheKoreaTimes.

My Korean is limited to just pleasentries and politeness right now but here's a 5 minute interview clip I came upon over at HanCinema. Includes footage of a photoshoot and behind the scenes shots, some of which were already seen in some shorter behind the scenes clips we've linked to in the last month. If I've lost track of anything forgive me, we've just been posting so dang much about this film it's hard to keep track.