2007 Milwaukee Asian Film Festival
Friday, March 30 – Thursday, April 5
4pm ** FREE **
Memories of Murder (Salinui Chueok)
(Bong Joon -ho , South Korea , Korean w/ Eng. St. , 132 min., 35mm, 2003)
Based on the true story of South Korea 's first serial killer. In 1986 South Korea is under military dictatorship. When women start turning up dead in a small town, two reluctantly-partnered cops resolve to bring the killer to justice. But in a world without DNA testing or modern forensics, the investigators are forced to rely mainly on intuition and brute force. Their crude measures become more desperate with each new corpse found. At times both touching and hilarious, Memories of Murder is a riveting tale of a mysterious killer and the ceaseless pressure on those charged with stopping his rampage.
7pm ** FREE **
Electric Shadows (Meng ying tong nia)
(Xiao Jiang , China , Mandarin w/ Eng. St. , 99 min., 35mm, 2004)
From one of China 's newest cinematic voices comes a charming tale set into motion by a disastrous encounter: delivery man Dabing crashes his bike into the mysterious Ling Ling . From her hospital bed, Ling Ling asks Dabing to go to her home and feed her fish; while there, Dabing discovers an astonishing diary. In its pages he reads stories of a little girl's passion for the movies, which re-ignites his own longing for the days when the cinema enchanted China 's masses, and audiences breathed and dreamed as one.
9pm ** FREE **
Exiled (Fong Juk)
(Johnnie To, Hong Kong , in Cantonese w/ Eng. St. , 100 min., 35mm, 2006)
