Genre: Drama
Director: Tae-gyun Kim
Starring: Hee-soon Park, Kei Shimizu
Duration: 121 min.
Rating: 6.0/10
Summary:
After a series of pipe dream ventures go belly up, retired pro soccer player Kim Won-kang happens to visit East Timor, where he finds children playing the game barefoot on rocky pitches. Sensing a new business opportunity on finding the country doesn't have a single sporting goods store, he embarks on a scheme to get rich quick by purveying athletic shoes to the unshod youngsters. Sadly, no one there can afford to pay $60 for a pair of shoes, even on a generous installment plan, and before he knows it, he is reduced to coaching a team of ragged 10-year-olds and prospects are looking grim.
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A Barefoot Dream directed by Kim Tae-Gyun, is South Korea's official entry to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. It is based on the true story of Kim Shin-Hwan, the coach of Timor-Leste's junior soccer program. Of all the great cinema coming out of South Korea, I am surprised they chose this movie. It is a rather cliched underdog sports movie filled with forced melodrama and stilted acting that we've seen a hundred times before.
Director: Tae-gyun Kim
Starring: Hee-soon Park, Kei Shimizu
Duration: 121 min.
Rating: 6.0/10
Summary:
After a series of pipe dream ventures go belly up, retired pro soccer player Kim Won-kang happens to visit East Timor, where he finds children playing the game barefoot on rocky pitches. Sensing a new business opportunity on finding the country doesn't have a single sporting goods store, he embarks on a scheme to get rich quick by purveying athletic shoes to the unshod youngsters. Sadly, no one there can afford to pay $60 for a pair of shoes, even on a generous installment plan, and before he knows it, he is reduced to coaching a team of ragged 10-year-olds and prospects are looking grim.
IMDB
Wikipedia
A Barefoot Dream directed by Kim Tae-Gyun, is South Korea's official entry to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. It is based on the true story of Kim Shin-Hwan, the coach of Timor-Leste's junior soccer program. Of all the great cinema coming out of South Korea, I am surprised they chose this movie. It is a rather cliched underdog sports movie filled with forced melodrama and stilted acting that we've seen a hundred times before.
2 comments:
lol, your review is perfect
I generally find Korean films to be clichéd or chauvinistic.
I've pretty much given up on them.
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