Cinema Chi-hwa-seon Painted Fire

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Director awared, Chiwaseon is a vivid portrait of the turbulent life and times of Korea’s greatest artist. As remarkably embodied by Choi Min-sik, the temperamental, passionate brush master Jang Seung-up paints with a martial artist’s fervor while indulging a rock star’s single-minded lust for life. Amidst the tumult and destruction of nineteenth centtury Korea, “Ohwon,” as he comes to be called, fights to escape both the rigid artistic boundaries and the social fetters that would deny his low-born, unschooled genius.

Discussion follows screening.

Hosted by Arle’ Sklar-Weinstein.

$10 suggested donation. Light refreshments provided.