The Korean Wedding Chest

The Korean Wedding Chest is a German documentary film by Ulrike Ottinger from the year 2008. At the Berlinale 2009, the film was premiered.

Content

In South Korea, millions of cities are growing rapidly, have modern outward and engineered. However, hidden behind the facades. Behind the hustle and bustle of busy everyday life, yet age-old traditions, rituals, myths and stories One of them is the wedding ritual. This includes the wedding chest that leaves the prospective groom to his bride - a relic of an ancient time, filled with rich fabrics, which is supported by Seoul to the address of the bride.

Reception

The film got good reviews. The magazine Cinema praised the work of Ulrike Ottinger, which show a "genuine interest in people and a keen sense of great pictures ." Also Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times reviewed the film more positively, describing him as "a chance to see the amazing and quiet work of Ottinger. "

" On the Trail of the elaborate customs, from those in Korea, a thriving business sector is alive, it leads to a world in which tradition and modernity are seamlessly transferred and where cult and industry, eastern tradition and western influences are hard to separate. The perspective is ethnographic, but not exoticize and opens profound insights into the superposition of old and new in the modern ( South) Korean society. "