Songs from the North

Name: Songs from the North
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 18, 2015
Duration: 72 min

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: September 18, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: Interweaving footage from director Soon-Mi Yoo's three visits to North Korea together with songs, spectacle, popular cinema and archival footage, Songs from the North tries to understand the psychology and popular imagery of the North Korean people. To look closely and objectively at North Korea, a country that challenges our mostInterweaving footage from director Soon-Mi Yoo's three visits to North Korea together with songs, spectacle, popular cinema and archival footage, Songs from the North tries to understand the psychology and popular imagery of the North Korean people. To look closely and objectively at North Korea, a country that challenges our most fundamental assumptions about the human condition, is ultimately to question the meaning of freedom, love and patriotism. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Soon-Mi Yoo

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 72 min

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Danny King

Dec 9, 2014

In Songs From the North, the South Korean–born, U.S.-based filmmaker Soon-Mi Yoo takes her camera to North Korea and, through a purposeful mix of on-location footage, poetic intertitles ("Is North Korea the loneliest place on Earth?"), and archival media, creates an empathetic snapshot of a country that is almost never depicted in such an accessible light. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Sep 13, 2015

North Korean culture is lensed in part through a South Korean perspective, with the final chapter asking: “Is reunification possible?” Read full review

Daniel M. Gold

Sep 17, 2015

Scattering history lessons and ambiguous imagery amid Ms. Yoo’s engagement with North Koreans, her film implicitly asks: What must they think of us? Read full review

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