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PostPosted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:45 am  Post subject: Motel Seoninjang / Motel Cactus (1997) (Drama) (DVDRip)
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Synopsis: Room 407 of Motel Cactus is home to all of the action in this moody, dark depiction of disconnection by first-time Korean director Ki-Yong Park. In four loosely-connected vignettes, the characters' unhappiness is expressed in a myriad of ways, with cinematographer Christopher Doyle (HERO, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE) creating a palpably oppressive, claustrophobic feel. The first encounter occurs on a young woman's birthday, which she celebrates in the hotel with her boyfriend, where their relationship deteriorates rapidly. Next, a student has rented the room in order to shoot a short film for his class, but while waiting for the cameraman to show up, he and the actress become physically intimate. An older couple meets in a bar and repair to 407 for drunken, wild sex, only to greet a melancholy morning, while a pair of lovers discover that their much-longed-for reunion works better as fantasy than reality. Every stage of romantic, heterosexual relationships is represented in this bleakly human tale of love, loss, and alienation in a seedy love motel in Seoul.

Reviews: Variety.com | SFGate | IMDb (external reviews)

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"I don't think it's in many way foreign or non-Korean," the director told an interviewer. "In fact, it contains many moments and images which are very Korean... and which are exactly what I wanted." He may have gotten what he wanted, but for the rest of the world Motel Cactus (winner of the New Currents Award at the 1997 Pusan Film Festival) may leave a very different kind of yearning. -- Eddie Cockrell


IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127692/
IMDb Rating: 5.2/10 (100 votes)

Directed by: Park Ki-Yong

Cinematography by: Christopher Doyle

Cast:
Woong-soo Han
Hee-kyung Jin .... Choi Hyun-joo
Woo-sung Jung .... Lee Mi-ku
Seung-Hyun Kim
Mi-yeon Lee .... Min Hee-soo
Shin-yang Park .... Kim Suk-tae

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               Title: Motel Seoninjang (1997)
                      AKA Motel Cactus
              Source: DVD / R0, NTSC / SRE Corporation
                Size: 1.563.670.162 bytes (1/3 DVDR)
             Runtime: 01:31:34
              Format: MKV

         Video Codec: H264 (x264 rev.1195M)
       Video Bitrate: 1827 kbps
          Resolution: 716x468 (Anamorphic, displayed at 1.814 AR)
        Aspect Ratio: 1.814 (SAR: 32/27)
          Frame rate: 23.976 fps

         Audio Codec: AC3 (2 channels)
       Audio Bitrate: 448 kbps
       Sampling Rate: 48 KHz

            Language: Korean
Subtitles (muxed in): SRT: English

                  SA: HP @ Level 4.1


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