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SOUTH KOREA · 2011
Barbie
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Synopsis
Soon-young lives with her mentally handicapped father and younger sister Soon-ja. When an American man and his daughter Barbie arrive for an adoption, the family must decide who is to let go, Soon-young or Soon-ja.
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Greta Gerwig has said she watched Jacques Demy's 1964 French musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg — a film where every word is sung, every surface is saturated with color — and understood immediately what Barbieland should be: a world where artifice isn't dishonesty, it's the only language adequate to feeling. Demy's films are devastating precisely because they're beautiful. The same sadness hides inside Barbie.
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