Blue Door Cinema is delighted to screen another outstanding film about Art and Artists: CHI-HWA-SEON (PAINTED FIRE), a film by IM KWON TAEK
Winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Best Director awars, CHIWASEON is a vivid portrait of the life and times of Korea's greatest artist. As embodied by Choi Min-sik, the tempermental, passionate brush master Jang Seong-up paints with a martial artist's fervor while indulging a rock star's single-minded lust for life Amidst the tumult and destruction of the nineteenth century Korea, "Ohwon" as he comes to be called, fights to escape both the rigid artistic boundaries and the social fetters that would deny his low-born, unschooled genius.