Sara Jeanne
2004
Short 3
Seong-sook Kim | 2004 | Fiction | 35mm | Color | 21min
SYNOPSIS
This movie is about the last day in the life of Sara Jeanne, an aging prostitute in a military base-side town. Every day, Sara Jeanne hides her wrinkles with heavy make-up, puts on faded worn clothes, and earns her living by selling her body to American soldiers while under the influence of alcohol. However, as a prostitute, she no longer has any place to stand and her life grows more vulnerable to the danger of violence. Now she decides to leave the military base-side town. No, she desperately needs to leave.
DIRECTING INTENTION
Years ago, I read in the newspaper about a prostitute in her 60s who died at the hands of an American soldier in a military base-side town. The article only a blurb, I wrote this sad story after reading about it. Limiting the background of the story to the last day of Sara Jeanne’s life, I portrays the irony of life through the coexistence of remorse and beauty/vulgarity in the life of an aging prostitute as she struggles to maintain the tiniest dignity by choosing her own death. If you know the story by Balzac, you'll know this film is about youth and age and beauty and ugliness and all those things running through a black comedy of manners. Sara Jeanne, the name of female character, comes from Balzac's Sarrasine. This work intends to capture a striking but sad contrast between those oppositions to make a long story into a short film. These contrast images are at the peak of the film when Sara Jeanne's real name is given as Kab-suk JIN.
FESTIVAL & AWARDS
제6회 이스트만코닥 단편영화 제작지원작
2003 영화진흥위원회 독립영화 제작지원작
제3회 대한민국영화대상 단편부문
제16회 시게이트포일영화제 단편경쟁부문
2004 세인트루이스국제영화제 단편부문
제9회 부산국제영화제 와이드앵글 부문
DIRECTOR
Seong-sook Kim
상황 혹은 상황들 (1995)
STAFF
Director Seong-sook Kim Producer Jenna Ku Cinematographer Dong-Eun Kim Editor Mi-ja Kang Lighting Ji-hoon Kim Art Director Kyung-in Baek Sound Bong-soo Kim Music SINZE Costume Designer Jeong-sook Jang Cast Young-ran Rhee, Chris Ferry, Soon-chul Yoo