Breath (숨, Sum) is the fourteenth feature film by South Korean director Kim Ki-duk.

Plot

After discovering her husband's infidelity, Yeon develops an interest in condemned criminal Jang Jin. Although she doesn't know him, Yeon visits Jin in prison and performs songs for him.

Cast

• Chang Chen ... Jang Jin
• Park Ji-ah ... Yeon
• Ha Jeong-woo ... Yeon's husband
• Kang In-hyeong ... Young prisoner
• Kim Ki-duk ... Prison warden

Reception

"Breath" was nominated for the Palme d'Or award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, although the prize was eventually awarded to the film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days". It has so far attained mixed reviews; Variety Magazine's Derek Elley concluded that the film was 'a far less ambitious work than "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring", one of the director's most internationally successful films from 2003 In a comment that may go part of the way towards an explanation of the film's reception, Twitch's reviewer Derek Todd professes:

I really wanted to love this film, but there’s just a little too much left unexplored and unexplained, and I was left with a feeling of wanting to have had more of these characters lives.

References

External links

• Breath at the Korean Movie Database
• Breath at HanCinema
• Breath at Festival De Cannes