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Venice 2022 :: Out of Competition Kõne taevast (Call of God) Mastering the science of love
La Biennale di Venezia
The last film of the late-director Kim Ki-duk has been officially invited to the 79th Venice Film Festival.
“I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.”
At the time of his death, the director KIM Ki-duk was at work on what would be his final feature, an Estonia, Kyrgyzstan and Latvian project titled Call of God. The film was completed posthumously by Kim’s Estonia-based collaborator, filmmaker and producer Artur Veeber. The work will receive its world premiere in a coveted out-of-competition slot in Venice on Sept. 6.
Known for his depictions of the underbelly of Korean society, with sequences of extreme violence and graphically outré content, Kim’s work was celebrated by the West’s great film festivals but tended to perform poorly at the Korean box office. In 2004, he won both Berlin’s Silver Bear for best director for Samaritan Girl, a drama about teenage prostitutes; and Venice’s Silver Lion for best director for 3-Iron, a horror drama. He later won Venice’s Golden Lion for best film in 2012 with the psycho-sexual drama Pieta.
“I’d say it was a kind of fidelity to the director, a kind of mutual respect and trust between the filmmaker and the festival,” Barbera tells THR of Venice’s long association with the director. “When Kim Ki-duk’s Estonian friends contacted me a year ago saying that they were working on completing the film that Ki-duk couldn’t finish, because he died during production, I thought we couldn’t let this opportunity pass,” he added. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Director: KIM Ki-duk Production: Estofilm (Tatjana Mühlbayer, Artur Veeber, KIM Ki-duk, Nargiza Mamatkulova) Running Time: 81’ Language: Russian, Kyrgyz Country: Estonia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan Main Cast: Zhanel Sergazina, Abylai Maratov Screenplay: KIM Ki-duk Cinematographer: KIM Ki-duk Editor: Audrius Juzėnas, Karolis Labutis Music: Sven Grünberg Sound: Sangam Panta With the support of: Eesti Kultuurkapital (Estonia), Avakademija (Lithuania) and Public Fund of culture “Altyn Anar” (Kyrgyzstan)
Director’s Statement
What is life? What is youth? What is old age? All humans grow old and eventually die. The closer to death, the more humans miss and reminisce about their youth. I miss my youth in my twenties. However, because I made many mistakes in my youth, if I could go back in time, I really would like to do well. But life never comes back.
Synopsis
Anticipation of Love has settled in the heart of a young lady. The boundaries between dream and passion are very elusive. Life is full of physical deprivations and, of course, sensual pleasures, and the deep meaning of that all is Love. The deeper the feeling, the more intense the emotions. Each girl dreams about meeting her love one day. An experienced man helps her discover the world of passion and senses, and brings her to ‘heaven’s gate’ where the two of them will prevail. One can only imagine how many hearts were broken along the way to master the science of love. But passion blinds and soon the man becomes slave to the young woman’s sensual body. The carnal knowledge makes the girl try to subdue her love object. Emotions bring pain and suffering to the lovers as well as to their relatives and friends. Will the young heroine manage to meet the expectations of the man she loved and make him happy... become the one and only? Who will help her find the right path? Maybe the mysterious voice on the phone? Or will it be enough just to wake up and realise that it was just a dream, just a dream. This is what the last film by Kim Ki-duk, shot in summer 2019 in Kyrgyzstan, is all about. The film was finished by Kim’s friends and colleagues after he unexpectedly passed away in December 2020.
PRODUCERS / DISTRIBUTORS
PRODUCTION 1: Tatjana Mühlbayer, Artur Veeber, Nargiza Mamatkulova – Estofilm Kaarli pst. 11-6 10119 – Tallinn, Estonia Tel. +372 55684239 Mob. +372 58141452 veeberartur@gmail.com
PRODUCTION 2: KIM Ki-duk – Kim Ki-duk Films 20, Sandnae-ro 1-gil Mapo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
OTHER COPRODUCTIONS: Darius Vaitiekūnas – Audiovizualinių kūrinių autorių teisių asociacija AVAKA, Lithuania
WORLD SALES: Alain Veeber – MTU Otaku Kaarli pst. 11-6 10119 – Tallinn, Estonia Tel. +372 58049487 alain.estofilm@gmail.com
PRESS OFFICE: Artur Veeber Tel. +372 55684239 veeberartur@gmail.com
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