New Release: Secret Sunshine Blu-ray and DVD

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Laurence
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Jeon Do-yeon grieves in the 2007 Korean film Secret Sunshine.

The Criterion Collection released the acclaimed 2007 Korean film Secret Sunshine, directed by Lee Chang-dong (Poetry), on Blu-ray and DVD on Aug. 23 for the list prices of $39.99 and $29.99, respectively.

One of the leading filmmakers in contemporary Korean cinema, Chang-dong’s film stars Cannes Best Actress winner Jeon Do-yeon (The Housemaid) as a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husband’s provincial hometown for a fresh start.

A quiet but powerfully expressive drama about grief, acceptance and deliverance, Secret Sunshine finally received a limited release in U.S. theaters last December, three years after its first Stateside screening at the 2007 Telluride Film Festival.

The movie receives a new digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Lee Chang-dong and cinematographer Cho Yong-kyu, with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition and a new and improved English subtitle translation.

Here’s a breakdown of the features of the Blu-ray and DVD:

  • new interview with Lee
  • “On the Set of Secret Sunshine,” a video piece featuring interviews with actors Jeon Do-yeon and Song Kang-ho, as well as behind-the-scenes footage
  • U.S. theatrical trailer
  • booklet featuring an essay by film critic Dennis Lim

Check out the movie’s trailer:

 

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.