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THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT<\/strong>
\nMagnolia Films<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya<\/strong>
\nGrade: B+<\/strong>
\nDirector:\u00a0 Rob Cannan, Ross Adam<\/strong>
\nWritten by: Rob Cannan, Ross Adam<\/strong>
\nCast: Shin Sang-ok, Choi Eun-hee, Kim-Jong Il, Paul Courtenay Hu<\/strong>
\nScreened at: Review 2, NYC, 3\/29\/16<\/strong>
\nOpens: August, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

North Korea is such a bizarre country that a documentary filmed within its confines looks like an unbelievable sci-fi film.\u00a0 Isolated with the world\u2019s longest-running dictatorship, this Communist nation depends on the support of China, which has become increasingly wary of the cultish leaders.\u00a0 Though the only remaining, truly Communist state left, it is actually like a monarchy, with its despots passing the reign to their sons, as Kim Il-sung handed the baton to Kim Jong-il who in turn gave up his throne to the current nutcase, Kim Jong-un.\u00a0 Their powers are absolute.\u00a0 Anyone who crosses them disappears or winds up in an Asian gulag: the dissenters and their families as well.<\/p>\n

As strange as North Korea is, the story behind Rob Cannan and Ross Adam\u2019s \u201cThe Lovers and the Despot\u201d could trump (no pun intended) all.\u00a0 If this film did not have a plethora of talking heads, you might think it was yet another sci-fi melodrama, complete with kidnappings and escapes and involving the CIA, North Korea, South Korea and ultimately Hollywood.<\/p>\n

As anyone who follows politics already knows, Kim Jong-il, the son of the founder of the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea, was a movie fanatic.\u00a0 I use the word \u201cfanatic\u201d rather than the common abbreviation \u201cfan,\u201d because how else can you describe a guy who owned a collection of more than 20,000 video tapes and DVDs (so much for the Communist ideal against private property).\u00a0 His favorite pics included anything dealing with James Bond; also \u201cFriday the 13th,\u201d \u201cRambo,\u201d \u201cGodzilla,\u201d and Hong Kong action cinema. Sean Connery and Elizabeth Taylor were his favorite male and female actors.\u00a0 (What? No \u201cLast Year at Marienbad\u201d and \u201cHiroshima Mon Amour\u201d?)<\/p>\n

Not content with grooving on these in-the-can pics, Kim followed his dream.\u00a0 He wanted to \u201cown\u201d a film maker and an actress of his own, so what the hell\u2014why not have his agents in Hong Kong kidnap two of the most successful movie people from the South while they were Hong Kong meeting with a producer?\u00a0 The aim: to build a terrific film industry in his own country, one which depended on same ol\u2019 scripts or heroes dying for their leaders and nothing dealing with love.\u00a0 And North Korea was feeling Kim\u2019s success by allowing the screening of the first film from the West, \u201cBend It Like Beckham, watched by 12,000 people at the 2004 Pyongyang Film Festival.<\/p>\n

But back to the kidnap.\u00a0 In 1978, on Kim\u2019s orders, South Korean film director Shin Sang-ok and his actress wife Choi Eun-hee were abducted. Shin was a prolific South Korean film producer and director with more than one hundred producer credits and seventy director credits. For her part Cho Eun-hee is a South Korean actress, one of the biggest stars in Korean film.\u00a0 Their marriage broke up in 1978 when Shin was found cheating on her. Kim had Shin locked up for five years on what Kim later called a misunderstanding, then released him, giving him even more creative freedom than Shin had in his native South, making seven films for the dictator.\u00a0 At one point, Shin escaped on a train and was imprisoned.<\/p>\n

The highlight of the documentary are the actual recorded phone conversations that Shin had with Kim, which he smuggled out to prove that he did not defect from the South.\u00a0 The major part of the film is testimony from 89-year-old Choi, her commentary backed up by both archival film about Pyongyang society and some melodramatic reconstructions.\u00a0 Among the reconstructions, the most exciting, and in fact the only aspect of \u201cThe Lovers and the Despot\u201d that make the audience pulses speed, is the couple\u2019s break in Vienna when they packed small bags, took advantage of the their two security guards\u2019 involvement in a card game, and taxied to the U.S. embassy in Vienna, followed by a white taxi presumably manned by the guards.<\/p>\n

Though I have an antipathy to talking-heads documentaries, preferring the comic works of Michael Moore (\u201cSicko\u201d) and Morgan Spurlock (\u201cSuper Size Me\u201d), I was intrigued by Choi\u2019s sharp memory, enjoyed the shots of bizarre actions in Pyongyang such as the massive crying hysteria each time the two leaders had died, and watched the country\u2019s rubber-stamp parliament unanimously break into tears when they saw the Dear Leader doing just that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too bad that Kim chose, like Bashar al-Assad in Syria, to use his inheritance to take a gig as his country\u2019s authoritarian leader when he could have been a dandy film producer.\u00a0 The film is nicely edited by Jim Hession with often suspenseful music by Nathan Halpern and shot by a number of cinematographers.\u00a0 The doc is certainly informative, giving us in the West a look at an isolated country, with a subject, kidnapping, that has become a significant sub-genre of narrative films.<\/p>\n

Unrated.\u00a0 90 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B+<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 B<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 A-<\/strong>
\nOverall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

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