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Sounds quite a bit like Breathless (A Bout De Souffle)

posted 14 years ago by girlafraid-1
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Is this another remake of the 1959 Godard film? The plot sounds quite a bit similiar.

Not at all. The title "Breathless" was attached to the international version, but the original Korean title actually means "Dung Beetle".

[–] Nujabes 14 years ago

"Ddong pari" actually means Dung Fly.

[–] jgarber4444 11 years ago

However, there are similarities between Godard's Breathless and this film. Obviously, using this title was a marketing ploy and I don't think it was unreasonable to do so either. To my mind these films are both classics, though Ik-Joon Yang's is definitely not a re-make. Yang's film is wholly Korean, much more visceral and even more affecting than Godard's.