当地时间5月27日,戛纳迎来了又一位亚洲影后全度妍。凭《密阳》角色,韩国影星全度妍获封最佳女主角奖。《密阳》由韩国前文化部长、著名导演李沧东执导,讲述了寡妇Shin-ae与儿子的故事。全度妍1997年因出演影片《接触》(TheContact)而一举成名,如今已经成为韩国最受欢迎的女演员之一。
South Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon poses after winning theBestActress prize during the Closing ceremony of the 60th editionofthe Cannes Film Festival at the Festival Palace in Cannes,southernFrance.AFP
South Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon, who stars in a tragic movieondeath and faith, Secret Sunshine, won the Cannes filmfestsbestactress award Sunday.
The 34-year-old actress was acclaimed for her brave performanceasa grieving wife and mother in the South Korean melodrama, thefirstpicture in four years by Lee Chang-dong, a former SouthKoreanculture minister.
I cant believe Im here, said Jeon, wearing a silverlameevening gown.
There are many fabulous actresses here at the festival andIwould like to represent them all here tonight. It is a greathonourfor me to have this prize.
She has appeared in nearly every scene ofLeestwo-and-a-half-hour-long film, portraying Shin-ae, a pianoteacherwho moves with her son to the hometown of her late husband,whosedeath is still the source of nearly unbearable pain.
She dotes on her young son as a link to his father and thetwohave a palpably close relationship.
When, in a cruel and unexpected twist in the story, the smallboyis abducted and killed, Shin-ae turns to evangelicalChristianityon the advice of her pharmacist, a devout believer, asa means ofdealing with her grief.
Filled with religious fervour, she decides to visit hersonsmurderer in prison to tell him she has forgiven him.
But she is horrified when the killer tells her with a serenesmilethat he has repented and God has already offered himabsolution.
Who is God to forgive him before I have? she asks herChristianfriends in a rage.
Jeon is known as a chameleon of Korean cinema, who fullyinhabitsher roles.
She shot to stardom at home with her debut 1997 romanceTheContact.
The following year she starred as a schoolgirl in Harmonium inMyMemory and picked up South Koreas prestigious Blue DragonandGrand Bell prizes for best actress.
Jeon scored a box office hit in 2003 with a remake ofDangerousLiaisons and won rave reviews in 2005 for her portrayalof aprostitute who contracts AIDS in Youre My Sunshine.
Secret Sunshine was one of two South Korean moving competingforthe Palme. Kim Ki-duk presented Breath, starring TaiwaneseactorChang Chen as a man on death row who falls in love with ascornedwife.
Vocabulary:
dote on
:溺爱
absolution
:赦免
(实习编辑:顾萍)