Jeon Do-yeon (전도연) has officially just won the Best Actress Award at this year's Cannes Film Festival for her role in Secret Sunshine (밀양), the latest from director Lee Chang-dong (Oasis, Peppermint Candy). The film follows a recently widowed mother (Jeon) as she begins to start a new life without her husband. Song Kang-ho plays an auto mechanic who befriends her and attempts to bring meaning back to their lives again. 34-year-old Jeon Do-yeon won the best actress award at the 60th Cannes film festival. She became the second Korean actress in 20 years to win a best actress award at one of the three major international competitions, Cannes, Berline and Venice. Now, film critics around the world has been citing Jeon as one of the strongest candidates for the award at this year's Cannes. In "Secret Sunshine" or Milyang in Korean, Jeon plays a newly widowed Shinae, who seeks to start a new life with her little son in her late husband's hometown. In a cruel twist in the story, the little boy is abducted and killed, and Shin-ae turns to evangelical Christianity to deal with the overwhelming despair. "Secret Sunshine"'s main theme evolves around how people overcome tragedies and continue on with their lives. This is the first picture by director Lee Chang-dong since returning to the film industry after serving as the country's culture minister. "Secret Sunshine" was one of the two South Korean films competing for the Palme d'Or, otherwise known as Golden Palm, the highest prize given to a competing film. The other film was Kim Ki-duk's "Breath". But the highest honor went to the Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days about the harrowing journey of two women as they seek an illegal abortion in Communist Romania. Russia's Konstantin Lavronenko won best actor for The Banishment.
Jeon Do-yeon (전도연) has officially just won the Best Actress Award at this year's Cannes Film Festival for her role in Secret Sunshine (밀양), the latest from director Lee Chang-dong (Oasis, Peppermint Candy). The film follows a recently widowed mother (Jeon) as she begins to start a new life without her husband. Song Kang-ho plays an auto mechanic who befriends her and attempts to bring meaning back to their lives again. 34-year-old Jeon Do-yeon won the best actress award at the 60th Cannes film festival. She became the second Korean actress in 20 years to win a best actress award at one of the three major international competitions, Cannes, Berline and Venice. Now, film critics around the world has been citing Jeon as one of the strongest candidates for the award at this year's Cannes. In "Secret Sunshine" or Milyang in Korean, Jeon plays a newly widowed Shinae, who seeks to start a new life with her little son in her late husband's hometown. In a cruel twist in the story, the little boy is abducted and killed, and Shin-ae turns to evangelical Christianity to deal with the overwhelming despair. "Secret Sunshine"'s main theme evolves around how people overcome tragedies and continue on with their lives. This is the first picture by director Lee Chang-dong since returning to the film industry after serving as the country's culture minister. "Secret Sunshine" was one of the two South Korean films competing for the Palme d'Or, otherwise known as Golden Palm, the highest prize given to a competing film. The other film was Kim Ki-duk's "Breath". But the highest honor went to the Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days about the harrowing journey of two women as they seek an illegal abortion in Communist Romania. Russia's Konstantin Lavronenko won best actor for The Banishment.
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