I Saw the Universe You Painted: The Rich World of Women’s Films
Author
Son Hee-jeong
Cultural Critic Son Hee-jeong Meets 13 Women Directors
The World of Brilliant Female Narratives
In 2018, despite initially lackluster box office performance, "Miss Baek" (directed by Lee Ji-won) began to garner significant attention from audiences due to the strong female narrative within the film.
Female audiences, who dubbed themselves "쓰백러(Baek Lovers)," started spreading promotional materials for the movie on social media, leading to multiple viewings. This trend continued in 2019 with "Kim Ji-young, Born 1982," which attracted 3.68 million viewers, and in 2020 with "Samjin Company English Class," which showed a strong momentum. Even "Lucky Chan-sil," an independent film, drew in 30,000 viewers. Why are audiences so enthusiastic about these female-centric films, often engaging in a ticketing practice known as "sending souls"? What is the essence of this new wave created by female directors?
"I Saw the Universe You Painted" will provide an answer to this question. This book compiles interviews conducted by cultural critic Son Hee-jeong with 13 female directors who released feature films from 2019 to 2020: Kim Do-young, Yoon Ga-eun, Kim Bo-ra, Jang Yu-jung, Lim Seon-ae, An Ju-young, Yoo Eun-jeong, Park Ji-wan, Kim Cho-hee, Han Ga-ram, Cha Sung-duk, Yoon Dan-bi, and Lee Kyung-mi, unfolding a female film universe.
As someone with a history of actively engaging in gender-based cultural criticism, Son Hee-jeong's interviews explore the films' portrayal of "women's love and hatred, desire, melancholy, and optimism," prompting reflection on how these works have become part of everyone's "story." Particularly in segments where Son Hee-jeong asks about the components of film such as camerawork, sound, and space from the perspective of a film scholar, readers can glimpse how the unconventional scenes are the results of the meticulous attention to detail in directing. Now, stop imagining only the men’s stories and let’s explore the time the directors have gone through to present women's stories as public narratives.
“As women filmmakers met and connected with each other, the breadth of "female film" expanded. Each work is unique, yet as these distinctivenesses connect and encounter unhesitant words, an unfathomable universe, a deep and vast female film universe, is formed. With so many films deserving recognition as “a really good film” rather than “a well-made film, but…”, I also felt compelled to contribute. That's why I decided to write about the rich world of female films.” (from page 8)
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