Minari star gets her due in Youn Yuh Jung Movie Week at the Korean Film Festival, via VIFF Connect to July 10
See the star show her stuff in roles from prostitutes to grannies
The Bacchus Lady
The 2021 Korean Film Festival streams to July 10 via VIFF Connect, presented by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Vancouver in partnership with the Vancouver International Film Festival, Korean Film Council, and the Korean Cultural Centre Canada
FILM FANS blown away by Youn Yuh Jung’s performance in Minari—not to mention her hilarious show-stealing turn at this year’s Oscars—can see why the actor is such a huge star in her homeland, thanks to this year’s Korean Film Festival, streaming via VIFF Connect.
Its Youn Yuh Jung Movie Week is streaming for only a few more days.
In case you missed her unforgettable speech at the Academy Awards, the septuagenarian flirted with Brad Pitt before giving the inspiring message, “Gender doesn’t matter. I don’t know how to divide like this: man, woman, black and white, yellow, brown, or gay or straight. I don’t want that kind of thing. We are just equal human beings. We have the same warm heart.”
You can start your fest viewing with Minari, director Lee Isaac Chung’s moving semi-autobiographical story about a Korean family working hard to put down roots in Arkansas. Youn’s arrival as the spiky, dryly funny grandmother, Soonja, grounds the entire movie.
You can see her play a more nurturing (but equally lovable) grandma in Canola at the fest, and depict a version of herself in the hilarious mockumentary Actresses. And don’t miss her racy yet poignant turn as the elderly prostitute in The Bacchus Lady, a film based on the real bagkaseu halmeoni (Bacchus grannies) that ply their trade in a park in Seoul.
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