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Song Kang-ho: "With Parasite, we spread the virus of Korean cinema in France"

2020-02-10T15:34:30.347Z


INTERVIEW - The star of the last Palme d'Or was present in Paris with the director of I met the devil Kim Jee-woon. Guests of honor at the Korean Film Festival (FFCP), they spoke with Le Figaro before the opening of the 14th edition.


They are two monsters of Korean cinema. On the one hand, Song Kang-ho, main actor of the film Parasite and biggest star of the seventh art in the land of Morning Calm. On the other, Kim Jee-woon, virtuoso filmmaker and jack-of-all-trades, director among others of I met the devil , Two Sisters and A Bittersweet Life . Guests of honor at the 14th edition of the Korean Film Festival in Paris (FFCP), the two men, who worked together on five feature films and a short film, agreed to answer questions from Le Figaro a few hours from the opening of the demonstration on Tuesday.

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Kim Jee-woon and Song Kang-ho at the opening of the Korean Film Festival in Paris. FFCP2019 - Jean LIM

LE FIGARO. - Why did you accept the invitation from the FFCP?

KIM Jee-woon. - We have been asked Kang-ho and I to come here several times before. Each time, we were filming or too busy to come. This year alone, I have come to Paris six times, because I have a collaboration project with France of which it is probably still too early to speak in detail (a series for Canal + co-written with

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