Yu Jun-sang Archives - London Korean Film Festival https://www.koreanfilm.co.uk/tag/yu-jun-sang/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:49:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Spring Song https://www.koreanfilm.co.uk/films/spring-song/ Tue, 05 Oct 2021 13:00:14 +0000 https://www.koreanfilm.co.uk/?post_type=films&p=3354 Following Things That I Learn From You (2016) and It’s Not Over Yet (2018), this is the third in a loose trilogy of films that trace the meandering journey and sometimes fraying friendship of musical duet J and Joy 20. Middle-aged singer Yu Jun-sang (writer/director Yu Jun-sang) and much younger guitarist Lee Jun-hwa head to...

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]]> Following Things That I Learn From You (2016) and It’s Not Over Yet (2018), this is the third in a loose trilogy of films that trace the meandering journey and sometimes fraying friendship of musical duet J and Joy 20. Middle-aged singer Yu Jun-sang (writer/director Yu Jun-sang) and much younger guitarist Lee Jun-hwa head to Japan on a whim (everything here is whimsical) to shoot a video for their latest (unfinished) song, at a time when the pair’s working and personal relationship is in flux.

This metacinematic making-of film shows both the music video and Spring Song itself gradually taking shape from Jun-sang’s apparently arbitrary ideas. It is also a deadpan joy from start to finish, with a rich layer of underlying melancholy, as what seems very simple is full of slyly sophisticated self-referentiality, while calmly addressing the ravages of change.

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